1. Job Numbers (Jeff Carter)
2. Re: Job Numbers (Sharon Bonney)

Thanks, Jeff and Sharon. Grim but important news. My new colleague Rachel Vilsack, who came to NSC from Minnesota's Department of Employment and Economic Department, has just put out a new blog post on education and workforce data <https://nationalskillscoalition.org/news/blog/making-a-covid-19-case-for-workforce-data> . She notes that some states -- Minnesota and North Dakota among them -- have public data dashboards that allow you to see the demographics of workers who filed for unemployment that week. Fully 3 in 10 newly unemployed individuals in MN have a high school credential or less. If folks have been following Strada's weekly COVID-19 worker survey data <https://www.stradaeducation.org/publicviewpoint/?_hsmi=87479195&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8Ig9UvjHp4V_BZHXWC2Q6mu9PCnQuOCLoJwBmldrI-ZdtLOQQeZT7I-eV7Dops1yMB9si5&utm_medium=email&utm_content=87479195&utm_source=hs_email>, there is interesting information there too. In particular, stats on the number of Americans who prefer non-degree/skill-based learning programs, and those who are looking for online options. On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 1:48 PM < members-request@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org> wrote: > Send Members mailing list submissions to > members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > members-request@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > members-owner@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Members digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Job Numbers (Jeff Carter) > 2. Re: Job Numbers (Sharon Bonney) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 12:18:18 -0400 > From: Jeff Carter <jcarter@literacypolicy.org> > To: "NCL List" <members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org> > Subject: [NCL Members] Job Numbers > Message-ID: > < > 171f51491d6.10961fc80543401.6587551821812907174@literacypolicy.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Most likely everyone has seen the headlines regarding the April job report > this morning. > > > > Most relevant for this group: > > The unemployment rate for workers with only a high school diploma > increased by 12.9%. > > The unemployment rate for workers without a high school diploma increased > by 14.4%. > > > I think I've always been under the impression that increasing unemployment > generates more demand for adult education but I can't remember what kind of > data there is to back that up. Any data from last recession that could be > used to produce a model for what might happen this time? > > At the same time, the damage to state and local budgets will likely be > many, many times worse than during the last recession. So I would expect > cuts to adult education programs could be even more severe than it was back > then. > > > > Apologies if a lot of this has already been discussed, but curious what > others are thinking. > > > > Jeff > > > > > Jeff Carter > Cell: (202) 374-4387 |?@jeffcrtr > > > > Senior Policy Advisor > National Coalition for Literacy > http://www.national-coalition-literacy.org/ > mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org > Former President, Committee for Education Funding > > > Executive Director > Physicians for Social Responsibility > > 1111 14th St, NW, Suite 700 > > Washington, DC 20005 > > http://www.psr.org/?|?mailto:jcarter@psr.org >