Households with two college educated spouses working are going to earn a lot more than households with only one worker of lesser education, with an even wider difference with households with no workers.
"I have a big concern that we don't actually know what his policies are because you know throughout the primary he had his policies that he would speak about, and since he clinched the nomination on June 3, he's really backtracked, " said Nili Navot, 28, an education worker from New York who came to Washington for the PUMA happy hour at the bar.
Jamil asks, "What will be the ripple effect" of all these anti-worker, anti-education GOP budgets?
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If you're a blue-collar worker with a lower education level, this has hit you much harder than it has higher- educated white-collar workers.
You can be a college graduate with a white collar job, or a skilled factory worker with no formal education, or a technical type with an education somewhere in the middle.
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Most intriguing are the returns by both experience and education of the worker.
Sonia's father was a factory worker with a third-grade education who didn't speak English.
He worked in retail banks in the 1990s, before turning to the public sector first as a social care worker and then as a further education lecturer.
Her father was a factory worker who had a third-grade education and spoke no English.
Ms. Longoria, born in Corpus Christi, is the fourth daughter of a special-education teacher and Army base worker.
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On the other hand, I believe that a creative education not geared toward training worker bees will be a better investment in the future workforce.
John, executive director of Centre for Education and Communication and editor of Labour File a bimonthly journal on worker issues.
But he became a busy worker in the cause when big money mobilised to block his overhaul of bilingual education.
That success will require preparing every child, everywhere in this country, to out-compete any worker anywhere in the world because we know that those students who are getting the best education are going to be able to compete.
Public education began as a way to indoctrinate the young, turn them into obedient little worker bees ready for the factory.
Indeed, they go much further than capital stock, natural resources, education, or the other usual suspects of textbook economics, towards explaining why a worker's productivity rises so astonishingly when he merely crosses the political boundary between Mexico and the United States.
Moreover, as Liz Davidson, a financial planner and founder of workplace financial education firm Financial Finesse points out here, the appropriate asset allocation for any individual worker will vary depending on what other assets he or she has outside of a 401(k) and his or her tolerance of risk.
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As an example, to earn the most popular Cisco certification, called Cisco Certified Network Associate, or CCNA, a worker must take an exam, most likely administered by Pearson, the British-based publishing and education company.
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