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Decoding the price of college: Complexity of figuring out costs holds students back

The Hechinger Report

Although about 85 percent of freshmen at four-year residential colleges receive some kind of financial aid, families get scared off by the sticker price, according to Phillip Levine, an economist who studies the problem. If the entire proposed amount is approved, it would be a large step toward Biden’s goal of doubling the Pell Grant by 2029.

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‘We’re aides, not maids.’ How one high-demand job shows education system’s failings

The Hechinger Report

The need for home health aides is projected to grow by 34 percent between 2019 and 2029. There is already a shortage of health aides, and demand is skyrocketing; one study estimated that 70 percent of adults over 65 are expected to need some form of basic assistance. Coalition on Long Term Care, which conducted that study.

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Can start-up companies profit off one of the lowest paid professions: home-based child care?

The Hechinger Report

To meet that goal they’d have to launch 100,000 new businesses per year from now until 2029. In 24 states, for instance, there is no minimum education requirement at all for opening a home-based child care, according to a report by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Like it or not, Trump is the next president — Now, here’s how he can improve higher ed

The Hechinger Report

We need to pull together and galvanize the recommendations of our higher education leadership into real, positive policy change for our public universities. As higher education leaders and concerned citizens, we must take hold of this moment and leverage it into policy changes that will have widespread impact.

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Aging states to college graduates: We’ll pay you to stay

The Hechinger Report

Maine has projected a need for 75,000 more workers in the 10 years ending 2029. We get a lot of phone calls from governors’ offices and legislators asking for feedback and insight about how the policy is working.” Unemployment in Vermont is just 1.8 percent , third lowest in the country after New Hampshire and Maryland.

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