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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

New Geography's The End of the Road for Eds and Meds argues that the health care and education industries are "at the end of their growth cycle." But what really caught my eye was the chart below highlighting the inflation rates for health care and tertiary education.  

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

  Over the last couple of decades women have passed men in most measures of educational achievement.    The quick summary: at all education levels and in most disciplines, women are outperforming men.    The implications of the growing education gap are clear. 

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JULY 2, 2020

Those shortfalls contribute mightily to other ill effects: poorer healthcare outcomes, lower educational attainment, and shorter life expectancies, for example." " The article chart below (click to enlarge) shows the median household net worth by race. 

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The Atlantic's The Great Affordability Crisis Breaking America covers how the rapid rise in the prices of housing, healthcare, education and childcare and their impact on Americans.  Coupled with wage stagnation effects, this is eroding the welfare of the bottom three quintiles of the population by income level. 

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JANUARY 28, 2019

They designed their survey to exclude highly educated workers—those with bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, and above—and to include a large share of people with lower incomes.  Again from the study: Our worker survey, as noted earlier, was designed to include a significant sample of less-educated, lower-paid workers.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

  Examples include personal trainers, wealth managers, dog walkers, mow and blow services, sports, music and education coaches for kids, and many others.   .  These are niche businesses that provide life support services to increasingly harried, time-constrained consumers. 

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MAY 18, 2020

Other popular professions include education and training (8 percent), sales and marketing (7 percent), and healthcare and sciences (8 percent). . The top three professions are consulting, coaching, and research (17 percent), creative services (16 percent) and information technology (13 percent).

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Key quote from LinkedIn's study methodology: "Specific industries were targeted including Art & Design, Accounting/Finance, Consulting, Consumer Goods, Education, Healthcare, HR, Marketing/Advertising, Retail, Sales and Tech." So LinkedIn finding a higher overall SMB usage rate of freelancers makes sense.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

interesting conversation with Skillshare's CEO Matt Cooper on the Trending in Education podcast.    Skillshare is an online education platform with over 5 million users and over 20,000 classes taught by a network of 6,000 teachers across dozens of fields. 

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MAY 19, 2020

Educational services - 74%. .   The industries with the highest percentages of businesses reporting a large negative effect are: Accommodation and food services - 83%. Arts, entertainment and recreation - 75%. Healthcare and social assistance - 70%. Retail trade - 53%. Transportation and warehousing - 52%.

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JULY 13, 2021

The first is that digital nomads, who are well educated and digitally savvy, tend to work in professions where talent shortages are common and attracting and retaining employees is a constant challenge. 

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JULY 23, 2019

Simply put, workers up and down the income ladder are finding that their compensation simply doesn’t keep up with rising costs, especially of education, health care, and housing.  Nor are the reasons behind the growing number of Americans with side gigs.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

  Economic growth has led to a jobs recovery for even the hardest hit segment of workers, those with less than a high school education. This is especially true for lower earning, less educated independent workers who, on average, are less satisfied with independent work than higher earning independents.

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MARCH 28, 2017

.  Key quote from the study abstract: Since 1980, the probability that a college-educated man was employed in a cognitive/high-wage occupation fell. We've covered the growing education gap between women and men in the past  and the gap appears to be increasing.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

As the Liveops chart below shows (click to enlarge), their home-based virtual agents are older, more experienced and better educated than traditional call center workers. One of their key selling points is the skill of their agents. And because their agents live in the U.S.,

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

.  The data comes from EMSI's Talent Attraction Scorecard , which looks at six metrics by county: job growth, skilled job growth, net migration, annual openings for skilled workers (per capita), educational attainment growth (based on adults with associate degrees and above), and a broad measure of regional competitiveness.

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JULY 15, 2019

The 40 percent — which Mish calls the “lower tier” — have seen paltry or volatile wage growth, rising expenses for housing, health care and education, and increased levels of personal debt.  About 60 percent of Americans have benefited financially, he said, while 40 percent have not.

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JUNE 28, 2013

Job Growth and Education Requirements is a comprehensive new report from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce that projects job growth by industry and occupation to 2020.   Despite this caveat, I agree with their conclusion - most future jobs will require education beyond high school.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Recent research by future of work expert Lynda Gratton  suggests due to longer life spans the traditional life stages - education, work and retirement - no longer work.   The chart below, from her MIT Sloan Review article The Corporate Implications of Longer Lives , illustrates this shift. 

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

It’s about what I, as a guest, am getting out of this from an educational point of view and an emotive point of view.”. Of these, our favorite is trend 72 - Wanderlux - which is described as: “Luxury used to be about gold, marble and chandeliers, big lobbies and glitzy hotels. It’s now about the experience. It’s about the destination.

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MAY 19, 2015

First, most coworking members reported learning new skills and improving existing skills from events and educational programs hosted at their coworking space. 67% of the respondents reported attending events and/or educational programs often (21%) or occasionally (45%).

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JANUARY 14, 2019

  But as the article chart below shows, ride sharing use is common across most age, income and educational cohorts. About half of Americans ages 18 to 29 (51%) say they have used a ride-hailing service, while 24% of those ages 50 and older say they have.  Key quote: " a mere 4% of the U.S.

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MARCH 27, 2018

These are makerspaces focused on educating members on digital fabrication. The center studies "how to turn data into things, and things into data."  "  Gershenfeld is also a founder of the Fab Foundation , which supports a global network of over 1000 Fab Labs.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The shift towards STEM education reflects the growing awareness that STEM jobs tend to be more plentiful than jobs for humanities grads. The article also points out the number of humanities graduates has slightly declined. This despite an overall increase in college graduates during this period.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Other popular professions include education and training (9 percent), sales and marketing (8 percent), and healthcare and sciences (8 percent).    Although we've been tracking independent worker professions for over a decade, the categorization problems make it difficult to compare this data over time. 

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

  The growth of low quality jobs - coupled with rising costs for housing, education and healthcare - means more people turn to the gig economy as a second source of income.   .  Since food services and drinking places tend to pay below average wages, they have created a lot of low quality jobs. 

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MARCH 9, 2013

The BLS recently released a report showing that the college education gap between women and men continues to widen. The relative under performance by men in educational settings is well established.  According to the report, by age 25 30 percent of women and just 22 percent of men had received a bachelor’s degree.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

.  The New York Time's article We're Making it Too Hard for Millennials points out: "The most educated generation in history is on track to becoming less prosperous, at least financially, than its predecessors." " In addition to earning less, many millennials are burdened with school related debt.

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AUGUST 24, 2017

The Georgetown Center on Education the Workforce has started a project on "good jobs" , with a focus on good jobs that don't require a university degree.    According to their first report, there are 30 million American workers without a college degree who have a good job.

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MAY 31, 2016

Other articles portray the users of on-demand services as only used by the rich and well-educated.    Quartz's Uber and Airbnb really are for the wealthy and well-educated  is a good example. Yes, higher income people are more likely to use these services than lower income people.

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MAY 20, 2019

It points out births by teens are at an all-time low, mistimed/accidental pregnancies have also declined and women are choosing to have fewer babies because of greater career choices and increased levels of education. This leads to fewer adults wanting them.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

." Key quote on earning Badges: Badges will be earned based on the same standards around the world – through world-class learning, fulfilling required experiences and making a contribution to the broader community, such as coaching colleagues, presenting to clients or publishing an article that educates others about the acquired skill.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

 The basics behind these are trends are a growing set of data indicating that men are falling behind women in a wide range of well being, educational, and employment measures.   Banks points out that a key reason is the growing educational and employment gender imbalances in the black community.

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APRIL 16, 2012

  Education is another potential cause.  Our research shows independent workers are better educated than the overall workforce. On average women, and especially younger women, are better educated than men. .  This would lead to more female freelancers than men.  For example, 57% of today's U.S.

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APRIL 17, 2017

  London's Edspace targets firms and individuals working in education. .  All the spaces listed are interesting, but a couple jumped out at us: Chicago's Coalition focuses on the energy and cleantech industries.  Manchester’s Orega has a membership mostly come from the media world.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

.  A non-profit with the mission of "a free world-class education for anyone anywhere," they've produced over 3400 short instructional videos anyone can access. They   MOOCs are part of a broader the education trend towards just in time learning.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

I was looking through some data from the Brookings Institute and ran across the graph below on the percent of Americans aged 25 to 64 that are "institutionalized" by education level.   Institutionalized is a nice way of saying in jail.  To be fair, it also includes folks in nursing homes.

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