Building a College-Educated America Requires Closing Racial Gaps in Attainment
April 6, 2021, 9:00 am
For the first time ever, half of the young adults in the United States have earned a college degree. From 2009 to 2019, the share of adults between the ages of 25 and 34 who earned an associate degree or higher rose from 41 percent to 50 percent. In 2017, the last time the Center for American Progress evaluated national attainment, degree attainment was just below the 50 percent mark. While hitting this milestone is good news and increases have occurred across demographic groups, there hasn’t been a great deal of progress in closing large and persistent racial equity gaps.
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The interior of Lordstown Motors, where General Motors once operated, is seen empty in Lordstown, Ohio, on October 15, 2020.
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Unions have helped workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in a number of ways, including by improving safety procedures for grocery store workers,
1 securing paid leave for postal service workers,
2 and lifting pay for some essential workers.
3 They have even helped jobless Americans sign up for state unemployment benefits, which is far too often a daunting process.
Unfortunately, during the COVID-19 recession, many unemployed workers faced difficulties accessing unemployment benefits a long-standing problem for the U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) system even before the pandemic. Over the past several decades, only about one-third of all jobless workers received unemployment benefits, many because of restrictive eligibility re
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The data in the preceding table are not seasonally adjusted, which means they reflect seasonal influences (e.g., holiday and summer hires). Therefore, the most valid comparisons with this type of data are year-to-year comparisons of the same month, for example, January 2020 versus January 2021.
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DLIR News Release: HAWAI‘I’S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AT 10.2 PERCENT IN JANUARY
Posted on Mar 15, 2021 in Latest News, Newsroom, Press Releases
HONOLULU The Hawai‘i State Department of Labor & Industrial Relations (DLIR) today announced that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for January was 10.2 percent compared to the revised rate of 10.3 percent in December. Statewide, 588,050 were employed and 67,000 unemployed in January for a total seasonally adjusted labor force of 655,050. Nationally, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.3 percent in January, down from 6.7 percent in December.