STEM Jobs See Uneven Progress in Increasing Gender, Racial and Ethnic Diversity
The higher education pipeline suggests a long path is ahead for increasing diversity, especially in fields like computing and engineering.
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The higher education pipeline suggests a long path is ahead for increasing diversity, especially in fields like computing and engineering.
In 2019, the share of American children living in poverty was on a downward trajectory, reaching record lows across racial and ethnic groups.
Around a quarter of college faculty in the U.S. were nonwhite in fall 2017, compared with 45% of students.
The number of U.S. households renting their home increased significantly between 2006 and 2016, as did the share.
As Obama’s time in office nears its end, the U.S. remains short of his goal to produce more college graduates by 2020.
Helped by the economic recovery, the share not working or enrolled in school dropped to a historic low of 16% by 2014, a Pew Research Center analysis found.
The median wealth of white households was 13 times the wealth of black households and 10 times that of Hispanic households in 2013, compared with eight and nine times, respectively, in 2010.
The share of Americans who live in middle-income households has held steady since 2010 – a flat trend that might actually be good news.
More Hispanics are already enrolled in college than ever before and, among those who are, nearly half (46%) attend a public two-year school, the highest share of any race or ethnicity.
Just 7% of the nation’s 18-to-24 year olds had dropped out of high school in 2013, continuing a steady decline in the nation’s dropout rate since 2000, when 12% of youth were dropouts.
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