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Millions of Americans have returned to work this year as health risks subside, but a full jobs rebound is a long way off, and the recovery so far has largely left behind Black Americans and workers without college degrees.
The highly uneven recovery has been driven by long-standing problems in access to the internet and child care, along with recent economic head winds.

In survey after survey over the past 18 months, students and faculty members alike consistently say they believe students have learned less than they usually do because of the pandemic.
In this interview, two experts on student learning discuss how colleges and professors can gauge whether and how much the pandemic set back students on their educational paths.

Workers' median earnings rise with each additional level of education, according to a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
The report, which bolsters prior research showing college degrees tend to pay off in the job market, also reinforces that students' occupations or majors significantly impact how much they make.

Home health aides perform exhausting work, with low pay, often no benefits and little respect. Meanwhile, the need for these workers is projected to grow by 34 percent between 2019 and 2029.
But meeting that demand will take a complete and substantial change in the training system, career pipeline, pay, and work conditions, experts and advocates say.

Since their creation at the turn of the 19th century, historically Black colleges and universities have grappled with discriminatory legislation and unequal funding.
This week, with the current budget reconciliation bill still waiting for congressional approval, HBCU advocates gathered on Capitol Hill to press for additional funding of HBCUs.

For all of the progress that highly selective universities have started to make in recruiting low-income and historically underrepresented students, they continue to cling tenaciously to admissions policies that confer significant advantages on children of privilege.
In this essay, the president of Johns Hopkins University speaks to what can happen when an institution eliminates legacy preferences.