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CraigPowellCDU

  1. Stop students under-training for open careers/overpaying for education by connecting the dots between education, career & financial planning
  2. With 3.7M job openings in the U.S., why is unemployment so high?
  3. 24 years or younger who left college/earned a 2-year degree - the full-time employment-to-population ratio fell from 69% in '00 to 54% today
  4. This April's Labor Department data shows that 4.7M unemployed had gone to college or graduated and 4.3 million had not
  5. A person 25+ with some college education is now more likely to be jobless than with a high school diploma or less
  6. A recent investors.com article documented the newest stats about unemployment ow.ly/b573C
  7. Read America's Best High Schools of 2012. Rankings focused on college readiness & matriculation. Are you on the list? ow.ly/b3wdM
  8. The owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, enters into the "Student Loan Bubble" debate ow.ly/aVdHm
  9. Want to see how your student debt compares to all the other colleges and universities across the nation? ow.ly/aU78u
  10. Contextualizing student debt and connecting the dots between college, career and financial planning is key - a must read:...
  11. 25% of students drop a college from consideration due to a bad .edu site experience. Get social with #admissions hub.am/IISsYs
  12. One in four students isn't graduating, thats 1.3M students each year #boostup
  13. Every 26 seconds a student drops out of high school #boostup
  14. One in three students drop out of high school #boostup
  15. Approximately 7,000 high school students drop out every school day #BoostUp
  16. LeBron James, with BoostUp.org, is campaigning to stop our excusable high school dropout rates ow.ly/aPrkK
  17. Check out this infographic about how college students are using technology ow.ly/aKdMM
  18. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation controls $30B that could help connect learners to possibilities - ask Melinda how:...
  19. Students need to be better prepared for the open jobs that exist, graduating with any degree isn't enough anymore ow.ly/aHBjy
  20. 17% of all STEM workers and 25% of Physical Scientists in the U.S. are foreign-born