Today, roughly 6.6 million Americans ages 25 to 45 are working on their college degree and there are approximately 36 million Americans who started college but never graduated and may one day return. These nontraditional learners are disproportionately Black, Latinx and lower earning. They are also more likely to have children. The real cost of college for students is higher than commonly understood. Tuition costs, which have risen rapidly during the past three decades, tend to drive much of the debate about college affordability. However, living costs for students such as housing, food, and transportation are far more dominant components of the cost of attending college, reads the report. For older students, average annual costs beyond tuition are nearly three times larger than the average annual cost of in-state tuition at public four-year colleges, and more than eight times larger than the average annual tuition for public two-year colleges. Understanding and addressi
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Since the pandemic started, 38.6 million Americans have filed for unemployment claims, according to new numbers announced Thursday.
That s more than one in five American workers using an unemployment insurance system first established decades ago to serve a very different population.
It was 1935 and the country was struggling to emerge from the Great Depression. The system s focus was people who worked in medium-to-large manufacturing or in trade industries, says Indivar Dutta-Gupta, co-executive director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality. Policymakers were clear that they wanted partial wage replacement for workers who were laid off through no fault of their own, he tells NPR s Ari Shapiro. But policymakers also recognized that unemployment insurance would have the effect of stabilizing the economy and helping keep workers attached to the labor force.