11,500: Overall, Ohio employers cut 11,500 jobs in December, marking the first month the state lost jobs since the recovery began slowing down in July.
In the latest JobWatch report, Michael Shields writes that both state and federal lawmakers need to take action to help Ohioans make ends meet.
$302 v. $624: In Cuyahoga County, a friend or relative caring for a child who has been removed from their home receives $302 a month in state support while a licensed foster care provider receives a minimum of $624 and a maximum of $2,619 a month. Four years ago, a federal court ruled that this two-tiered system, which disproportionately harms Black children and families, is a violation of federal law. Policymakers made a hasty attempt to address the issue at the end of last year, but
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A newly released study shows how students who earned bachelor s degrees in 2007-08 were faring after a decade.
Ten years after earning their bachelor’s degree, 86 percent of college graduates had a retirement account and 63 percent owned a home, according to a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics.
Despite the often-held assumption that well-educated but indebted millennials can t afford to buy homes, the new NCES report paints a different picture. That picture may reflect more on the housing market than on higher education, but economists said the new data are a good sign for colleges and universities that might be worried bachelor s degrees provide lesser value to graduates during a recession.
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Cadets in the maritime program at Northwestern Michigan College perform a safety drill. Vocational programs are not uniformly popular with students at the state’s community colleges. (Photo courtesy of Northwestern Michigan College.)
Nearly everywhere he goes, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder talks about well-paying, but unfilled, welding, carpentry, machining and other skilled-trades jobs, as well as technical occupations in health care.
Snyder has said Michigan and the country “messed up” by telling young people that the only path to a well-paying career is getting a four-year degree at a university.
But helping the state fill “middle-skill” positions through post-high school training or a community college degree is proving as vexing for the state’s 28 community colleges as it has been for the governor.