What’s behind the growing gap between men and women in college completion?
The growing gender gap in higher education – in enrollment and graduation rates – has been a topic of conversation and debate in recent months.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The growing gender gap in higher education – in enrollment and graduation rates – has been a topic of conversation and debate in recent months.
Nearly one-in-five middle-income families report receiving unemployment benefits in 2020.
The share of adults who live in middle-class households fell from 61% in 1971 to 50% in 2021, according to a new analysis.
College graduates without a college-educated parent have lower incomes and less wealth, on average, than those with a parent who has a bachelor’s or higher degree.
Nearly half of U.S. adults say the pandemic has driven people in their community apart. Many see a long road to recovery: About one-in-five say life in their community will never get back to the way it was before COVID-19.
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.
The global middle class consisted of 54 million fewer people in 2020 than the number projected prior to the onset of the pandemic.
The U.S. Black population is growing. At the same time, how Black people self-identify is changing, with increasing shares considering themselves multiracial or Hispanic.
Before COVID-19, wages, job availability and health care costs mattered more than the stock market in Americans’ views of how the economy was doing.
The gender wage gap narrows as women move into high-skill jobs and acquire more education. Women are now in the majority in jobs that draw most heavily on either social or fundamental skills.
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