College degree requirements have steadily crept down the income ladder over time. In 2022, $65,000 was the lowest salary at which a majority of prime-age workers held at least a bachelor’s degree.

Why aren’t there low-cost college degrees? An investigation by my think tank shows that the government’s biggest education grant program systematically rewards colleges for charging more money.

It’s ironic that high-tech solutions being proposed could actually widen, not close, the college-degree gap for low-income kids. We need “high touch” initiatives to balance the high-tech.

For middle-age white men with only high school degrees -- the core of President-elect Donald Trump’s support -- inflation-adjusted income fell 9 percent from 1996 through 2014, according to ...

The college graduation gap between rich and poor has widened by nearly 50%. That makes it all the more difficult for students from lower-income families to get ahead.

In 1973, young men without college degrees were earning almost $58,000 a year. That means the typical income for this group remains 22% lower than half a century ago, according to Pew.

Democrats and Republicans agreed that insufficient financial aid was not only making it harder for lower-income students to attend college, but middle-class students as well. Over all, 78 percent of ...

If you don’t have a four-year college degree, you’re hardly alone. The majority of US working age adults do not. You may assume you have little chance of developing a well-paying career with ...

Getting low-income students into and through college isn’t enough to position them well for success in the workplace. They need programs that give them strong mentors and real-world work ...

Families without a member with a college degree had a median income that was only 4 percent higher in 2019 than in 1970, compared with 24 percent higher for families where at least one member had ...

Last Sunday’s front-page story on education inequality poignantly describes how financial barriers keep low-income students from completing college degrees at rates on par with their peers ...

To date, the company has hired 10,000 people from low- and middle-income communities through the program and aims to hire 10,000 more by 2025. More apprenticeships likely ...