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America's Divided Recovery: College Haves and Have-Nots

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Author: 
Anthony P. Carnevale
Tamara Jayasundera
Artem Gulish
Year: 
2016
Type of Research: 
External Research
Publisher: 
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
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Over 95 percent of jobs created during the recovery have gone to workers with at least some college education, while those with a high school diploma or less are being left behind. America’s Divided Recovery: College Haves and Have-Nots reveals that those with at least some college education have captured 11.5 million of the 11.6 million jobs created during the recovery. While jobs are back, they are not the same jobs lost during the recession. The Great Recession decimated low-skill blue-collar and clerical jobs, whereas the recovery added primarily high-skill managerial and professional jobs.

For more, see: https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/americas-divided-recovery/.