Washington, DC, Feb. 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) counters the public perception that rural localities have been “left behind”: the rural workforce comprises 13% of the total 25-to-64-year-old working population in the US and holds 12%, or a roughly proportionate share, of the good jobs. CEW’s latest report uses a good jobs framework to highlight rural America’s assets and challenges. It also provides recommendations to mitigate the region’s high labor-force non-participation rate (26%), low bachelor’s degree attainment rate (25%), and overall population decline.
(GlobeNewsWire)