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Cutting unemployment benefits won’t bring back workers — but will hurt millions of families, new research finds A total of around 3.5 million workers will lose supplemental funding. Published:  Tags:  FILE - San Antonians react to Abbott opting out of federal supplemental unemployment program A push to decrease financial support for the unemployed could cause millions of Americans to lose their jobless benefits, a new report finds. In the wake of a disappointing April jobs report, which showed that a mere 266,000 new jobs were created, even with a record high 8.1 million job openings in...

Share: Washington, DC, May 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Inequality in the US education system has high costs for society, according to a new thought experiment from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW). If the United States committed to achieving more equal postsecondary educational attainment by income and race/ethnicity, with an initial investment of $3.97 trillion, our country could see annual public benefits of $956 billion, in addition to numerous nonmonetary benefits. The report also highlights nonmonetary benefits associated with increasing education...

/ iStockphoto Utah-based startup Degree Insurance wants to help students pay off their debt — by insuring college degrees. Sierra Golding didn’t plan on going to college after graduating high school in 2015, mostly because she couldn’t afford it. Instead, she went abroad to teach English. A couple years later, her high school debate coach called and said the team at the University of Utah wanted to recruit her, and that it would pay for school. She accepted the offer, in part, because the coach pitched it to her as a done deal. “That summer rolled around and I reached out to him and ...

Spencer Platt/Staff/Getty Images 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 econ...