The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) is a research and policy institute within Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
Our report, “The Golden Ticket,” finds that achieving a 70% postsecondary attainment rate across all demographic groups in California would result in $4.4 trillion in net monetary gains for the state and its residents over the next 50 years.
To some, the specter of AI suggests that the end of human work is on the horizon, and with it, the end of postsecondary education as job preparation. CEW’s Jeff Strohl discusses how AI could affect human work on our blog. Read more:
While it’s impossible for every job to use the full range of graduates’ skills and some degree of mismatch is inevitable, it’s clear that we can do more to better align education pathways with labor-market demands. Read more in our latest blog:
Advancing underemployment research will require additional investments in labor-market and education data. For instance, we need to better map how majors, degrees, and fields of study align with the labor market. More on our blog:
An important factor in underemployment is identifying at what points in workers’ early-career trajectories they are more or less likely to move out of underemployment. CEW's Jeff Strohl discusses advancing underemployment research on our blog: