The Job

For short-term credentials to have the best chance of paying off for students, an emerging view holds that they need to be heavily subsidized—with funding from employers or foundations if government support isn’t there—while offering connections to actual living-wage jobs.

Americans view college as expensive and time-consuming and believe the economy is fundamentally unfair, new research found.

Workers can exclude from their income up to $5,250 per year in education contributions from their employer. Proposed legislation would more than double that cap.

Under the approach, borrowers must repay the cost of training covered by interest-free loans but only if they land a job with pay above a set threshold.

As more companies offer employee education benefits, some are adding education startups as well as college partners.

A “paper ceiling,” the national ads say, holds back half of the U.S. workforce.

California’s Golden State Education and Training Grant Program largely has flown under the radar. It will help residents who lost jobs in the pandemic, with a focus on student parents.

Several career and technical education majors at community colleges had big enrollment increases