Fewer young men are in college, especially at 4-year schools
College enrollment among young Americans has been declining over the past decade, and it’s mostly due to fewer young men pursuing degrees.
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College enrollment among young Americans has been declining over the past decade, and it’s mostly due to fewer young men pursuing degrees.
In 2021, 18% of parents didn’t work for pay, which was unchanged from 2016, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.
Women have overtaken men and now account for more than half (50.7%) of the college-educated labor force in the United States.
Americans relocated less during the COVID-19 outbreak, moving from one residence to another in 2020 at the lowest rate in more than 70 years.
Among adults 25 and older who have no education beyond high school, more women have left the labor force than men.
The number of American homeowners increased by an estimated 2.1 million over the past year, according to the Census Bureau.
In the third quarter of 2020, about 28.6 million Baby Boomers reported that they were out of the labor force due to retirement.
Half of U.S. adults say colleges and universities that brought students back to campus made the right decision, while 48% say they did not.
Between February and June 2020, the share of young adults who are neither enrolled in school nor employed has more than doubled.
Black and Hispanic workers remain underrepresented in STEM jobs compared with their share of the U.S. workforce.
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