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Make therapy free for everyone
Editor's Note: This blog is part of a series highlighting policy proposals from Richard Reeves and Isabel Sawhill's 2020 A New Contract with the Middle Class. The COVID-19 pandemic has helped to draw greater attention to mental health issues that can be neglected in public policy debates.
An apprenticeship FAQ: What employers need to know about talent development
Technologies such as automation and artificial intelligence are influencing jobs and workflows across every major industry. However, businesses that want to deploy them are constrained by their capacity to keep employee skills up to date and recruit talent familiar with both the new technology and their industry. Employers will inevitably need to rethink their talent recruitment and staff development strategies.
Apprenticeships are an overlooked solution for creating more access to quality jobs
President Joe Biden is encountering fires on many fronts as he takes office, among them a level of joblessness not seen since the Great Depression. Our policy response to the previous recession ended too soon and left 53 million Americans stuck in low-wage jobs.
Public colleges are the workhorses of Middle-Class Mobility
The fiscal distress brought on by the coronavirus pandemic has sparked ongoing discussion about the failure of elite, private universities to use their large endowments to avert steep cuts. Coupled with the recent sentencing of Lori Laughlin in the Varsity Blues scandal, it’s easy to forget that most students don’t attend these types of institutions.
Class Notes: Economic Activity Amid COVID-19, Homeownership and Wealth, and More
Editor's Note: If you want more content like this, subscribe to our newsletter. This week in Class Notes: Raj Chetty and colleagues have built a publicly available platform that tracks economic activity at a granular level in real time. DelCAN and similar programs can increase the use of the most effective reversible methods of contraception. COVID-19 has a large, negative effect on the experience of college students, with low-income students being hit the hardest.
Class Notes: Policing the police, college access, and more
Editor's Note: If you want more content like this, subscribe to our newsletter. This week in Class Notes: Access to public four-year colleges in Georgia dramatically increases students’ B.A. completion rates and incomes around age 30, with students from low-income high schools benefiting the most.
Class Notes: Millennial wealth accumulation, salary history bans, and more
Editor's Note: If you want more content like this, subscribe to our newsletter. This week in Class Notes: Our own Bill Gale and colleagues describe intergenerational wealth trends, with a special focus on millennials. Salary history bans reduce the gender pay gap. Placing sanctions on poorly-performing for-profits helps redirect students to community colleges, where they are less likely to default on federal student loans.
Opportunity engines: Middle-Class Mobility in higher education
Filter by: Commuting Zone: Selectivity Tier: Middle-Class Mobility: Middle-Class Mobility Rank: Middle-Class Mobility Rank within Selectivity Tier: Bottom-to-Top Mobility: Bottom-to-Top Mobility Rank: Bottom-to-Top Mobility Rank within Selectivity Tier: Students per Cohort: Acceptance Rate: Instructional Spending Per Student: Source: Authors' calculations using Mobility Report Cards data from Opportunity Insights.
Class Notes: Harvard Discrimination, California’s Shelter-in-Place Order, and More
Editor's Note: If you want more content like this, subscribe to our newsletter. This week in Class Notes: California’s shelter-in-place order was effective at mitigating the spread of COVID-19. Asian Americans experience significant discrimination in the Harvard admissions process. The U.S. tax system is biased against labor in favor of capital, which has resulted in inefficiently high levels of automation.
Class Notes: Unequal Internet Access, Employment at Older Ages, and More
Editor's Note: If you want more content like this, subscribe to our newsletter. This week in Class Notes: The digital divide—the correlation between income and home internet access —explains much of the inequality we observe in people’s ability to self-isolate. The labor force participation rate among older Americans and the age at which they claim Social Security retirement benefits have risen in recent years.
Class Notes: Income Segregation, the Value of Longer Leases, and More
Editor's Note: If you want more content like this, subscribe to our newsletter. This week in Class Notes: Reforming college admissions to boost representation of low and middle-income students could substantially reduce income segregation between institutions and increase intergenerational mobility. The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend increased fertility and reduced the spacing between births, particularly for females age 20-44.
Class Notes: Minimum Wage and Children’s Health, College Regrades, and More
Editor's Note: If you want more content like this, subscribe to our newsletter. This week in Class Notes: Male students are significantly more likely than female students to ask for regrades in college. Higher minimum wages have large, positive effects on child health, with the greatest benefits between ages 1-5. The Social Security Annual Earnings Test reduces the employment rate of affected Americans by at least 1.2 percentage points.
Class Notes: Virtual college counseling, rainy-day savings accounts, and more
Editor's Note: If you want more content like this, subscribe to our newsletter. This week in Class Notes: Accounting for the consumption value of college increases the rate of return to a college education by 12-14%. Virtual college counseling increases applications to four-year and selective universities, particularly among disadvantaged students, but the effect on acceptance and enrollment is minimal.
Class Notes: Immigrants’ upward mobility, paid family leave, and more
Editor's Note: If you want more content like this, subscribe to our newsletter. This week in Class Notes: The African American Male Achievement Program significantly reduced drop-out rates among Black male students, particularly those in 9th grade. Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than children of U.S.-born parents. California’s 2004 Paid Family Leave Act reduced the number of children born and, by decreasing mothers’ time at work, increased time spent with children.
Class Notes: Taxing billionaires, college course availability, and more
Editor's Note: If you want more content like this, subscribe to our newsletter. This week in Class Notes: Limits on college class sizes negatively affect outcomes for community college students. Billionaires’ geographical location is highly responsive to state estate taxes. However, the benefit of the tax still exceeds the cost for most states. Higher minimum wages increase family incomes and decrease reliance on public assistance for those at the bottom of the income distribution.
Class Notes: The school to prison pipeline, the economics of AI, and more
This week in Class Notes: Schools with strict suspension policies produce negative outcomes for children, including decreased educational attainment and a greater risk of incarceration in adulthood. Mothers’ employment status is strongly correlated with that of their children. Advancements in artificial intelligence have the potential to significantly increase productivity, though new forms of digital economic regulation will be required to broadly disseminate the resulting benefits.
Class Notes: Supporting Community College Students, Teachers’ Gender Bias, and More
Editor's Note: If you want more content like this, subscribe to our newsletter. This week in Class Notes: The City University of New York’s (CUNY) Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) program boosted graduation rates significantly and helped students graduate more quickly. The introduction of mandatory waiting periods causes a significant increase in the share of abortions obtained during the second trimester.
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