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The U.S. Employment Situation, May 2013
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports in its employment situation release this morning that +175k jobs were added in May. This is slightly better than what economists expected for the month and better than April’s downward revised +149k....
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University Modifies Student Health Insurance Plan To Cover Sex-Change Surgery
Beginning this fall, the University of Illinois at Chicago will cover sex-change surgeries under the student health insurance plan. The idea was presented by a student committee and passed Wednesday...
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The States That Spend The Most On Education
The U.S. Census Bureau has released some interesting financial data on education at the elementary and secondary school level. The national average in 2011 for all states was spending $10,560...
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College Enrollment Is Still In Decline
A new report released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center details college enrollment trends for the Spring 2013 semester. It shows that total enrollment has been down year over...
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The Enormous Education Gap Of US Immigrants
In a recent memo to Paul Ryan, the CBO released some very interesting updated immigration figures for 2012. The most striking statistic in the release is the varying educational attainment...
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How Dissertation Length Varies By Major
Using the University of Minnesota library system, R is my friend has dug through 2,536 dissertations that were published since 2007 to analyze how long the final papers tend to...
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Older And More Educated Women Having More Babies
The WSJ’s Jason Bellini takes a look at trends in U.S. child births by the ages and education levels of the mothers. Pregnancies are down since 1992 among younger women...
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ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI Slips To 53.1
The Institute for Supply Management reports that the PMI from its ISM non-manufacturing survey was a reading of 53.1 in April. This is down from a 54.4 reading in March,...
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The US Employment Situation, April 2013
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports in its employment situation release this morning that +165k jobs were added in April. This is better than what economists expected for the month and better than March’s extremely upward...
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US Still Lags OECD In Preschool Enrollment
We’ve learned before that the U.S. ranks terribly low when graded on child well-being, and a significant part of the problem may be a lack of education. Here’s an interactive...
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US Ranks Near The Bottom Of Developed Countries In Child Well-Being
UNICEF has recently released an incredibly interesting report examining child well-being in 29 of the world’s most advanced economies. I’ll cover some highlights here, but I do recommend reading the...
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Why PhD Candidates Immigrate To The US, And Why They Don’t
A new paper by Paula Stephan, Chiara Franzoni, and Giuseppe Scellato considers why foreign-born PhD candidates choose to, or not to, immigrate to certain nations for their study. Contrary to what...
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The US Employment Situation, March 2013
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports in its employment situation release this morning that +88k jobs were added in March. This month’s payrolls print is a significant decrease from February’s revised reading of +268k, and is...
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McDonald’s Is Hiring Cashiers, If You Have A Bachelor’s Degree And 2 Years Experience
The Washington Examiner finds a job posting from a McDonald’s in Massachusetts seeking new cashiers. This is a great opportunity for younger job seekers or the unemployed to begin or return...
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The Great Reversal In The Demand For Skill
A new paper by Paul Beaudry, David A. Green, and Benjamin M. Sand attempts to explain the reasoning for low unemployment in the United States. They focus their study on...
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Education Funding At The State Level Has Taken A Massive Hit Over The Last 5 Years
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows in the below chart just what a drastic change U.S. states have undergone in their higher education funding. Only 2 states have...
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Tenured Professors Refusing To Retire From Such A Plush Gig
Our higher education dilemma of the day comes to us from PBS News Hour’s college workforce coverage. In the clip below, PBS interviews several tenured professors, along with some from...
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The Employment Situation, February 2013
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports in its employment situation release this morning that +236k jobs were added in February. This month’s payrolls print is a large improvement to...
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US Military Suicides Outweigh Combat Deaths
The Century Foundation points out today that in 2012 military suicides were actually greater than the number of combat deaths. In 2012, 295 members of the U.S. military were killed...
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The US Employment Situation, January 2013
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports in its employment situation report this morning that +157k nonfarm payrolls were added in January. The BLS has made adjustments to all the payrolls...
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More Same-Sex Peers In High School Leads To More Lucrative College Major Selection
A new paper by Massimo Anelli and Giovanni Peri explores the college major choices of high school students based on the gender composition of their schools. They find that where there...
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The U.S. Employment Situation, December 2012
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has just released its employment situation report for December 2012. A total of 155k nonfarm payrolls were added in December, a relatively weak reading. October’s payrolls...
