Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

EDUCATION - INVESTING IN OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE

Maintaining our status as a "shining city upon a hill" is dependent on our commitment to our children and their education. We need to raise standards and encourage choice and competition in our school systems. In Congress, Steve Pearce successfully worked to strengthen teacher training programs and increase student loan forgiveness for many highly qualified teachers. He fought repeatedly to help schools in rural areas and those near military bases. When he returns to Congress, he will continue to pursue an agenda of excellence and opportunity for our education system.

EDUCATION IS A FACTOR IN UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
Submitted by Steve Pearce on Wed, 2010-03-03 08:35

We are told the unemployment rate is 9.7% for the month of February. It may be considerably higher, but that is fodder for another conversation.

All employment numbers are aggregates. The 9.7 (or whatever number you feel comfortable) is actually an average of lots of different numbers. Those different subsets are where the real information is in the unemployment report.

For example, people without a high school diploma have an unemployment rate of 15.2%. College graduates have an unemployment rate of 4.9%. That is a stark reality. It may be considerably higher, but that is fodder for another conversation.

All employment numbers are aggregates. The 9.7 (or whatever number you feel comfortable) is actually an average of lots of different numbers. Those different subsets are where the real information is in the unemployment report.

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