Half of Latinas Say Hispanic Women’s Situation Has Improved in the Past Decade and Expect More Gains
Government data shows gains in education, employment and earnings for Hispanic women, but gaps with other groups remain.
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Government data shows gains in education, employment and earnings for Hispanic women, but gaps with other groups remain.
Hispanic enrollment at postsecondary institutions in the U.S. has risen from 1.5 million in 2000 to a new high of 3.8 million in 2019.
About half of Asian adults who have heard of affirmative action (53%) say it is a good thing, 19% say it is a bad thing, and 27% say they don’t know whether it is good or bad. However, about three-quarters of all Asian adults (76%) say race or ethnicity should not factor into college admissions decisions.
In 2018-19, 79% of White elementary and secondary public school students went to schools where at least half of their peers were also White.
Classes have ended for the summer at U.S. public schools, but a sizable share of teachers are still hard at work at second jobs outside the classroom.
A projected 50.7 million pre-K-12 students will return to the classroom in U.S. public schools this fall. As the school year gets underway, read key findings about America’s students and their experiences.
As Howard University celebrates its 150th anniversary, learn more about America’s historically black colleges and universities and the students who attend.
Much of U.S. job growth over the past 25 years has been in occupations that require higher levels of education, training and experience – a trend that seems likely to continue, based on our analysis of official government job-growth projections.
American students continue to rank around the middle of the pack, and behind many other advanced industrial nations, in international assessments of math, science and reading.
More than six years after the Great Recession ended, almost 10.2 million teens and young adults in the U.S. are neither working nor in school.
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