Student debt levels have been rapidly increasing over the last several decades and in 2021, the national student loan debt surpassed $1.7 trillion. In light of this trend and with young workers now facing a weakened economy due to the COVID recession, conversations around student loan forgiveness have become a central part of the national policy debate around how to fix the student debt crisis.
Summary Selective college admissions are fundamentally a question of tradeoffs: Given capacity, admitting one student means rejecting another. Research to date has generally estimated average effects of college selectivity, and
Millennials are on track to become the most educated generation in the coming years. Educational attainment has increased among young adults in almost every successive business cycle in the last six decades.
Govern for America (GfA) We are collaborating with GfA – a nonprofit that places college graduates into State government positions — to understand how young Americans think about government, and to test new ways to attract recent college graduates to public sector jobs. Over the…
The Goldman School of Public Policy and the Berkeley Institute for Young Americans brought together young California leaders and organizations in the Summer of 2016 to build our generation’s vision for a
We envision a new paradigm in public policy that advances an equitable, sustainable, and prosperous society for current and future generations.
