- Lack of learning among low-income families could hamper California’s economic recovery, report says, By Josh Dulaney, May 8, 2013, Long Beach Press-Telegram: “A new report released Wednesday cautions that the lack of higher education among California’s low-income families could further hurt the state’s economy over the next decade. According to the Los Angeles-based Campaign for College Opportunity, which worked on the report with the Women’s Foundation of California, the state faces a shortage of 2.3 million college graduates and those with vocational certificates by 2025, even as the demand for highly educated workers continues to grow…”
- State working poor lack education opportunities, report says, By Carla Rivera, May 8, 2013, Los Angeles Times: “California has the highest number of working poor families in the nation, but the state does an ineffective job of providing educational opportunities to boost them out of poverty, according to a new report released Wednesday. The report, Working Hard, Left Behind, found that the state has the largest number of adults without a high school diploma or equivalent and ranks last among states in the percentage of low-income working families in which neither parent has a college education…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty