Georgetown © CENTER ON EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE
has released a report that examines the projected shortages of middle-skills credentials (certificates and associate’s degrees) that provide pathways to occupations that are high-paying for early-career workers without a bachelor’s degree. Bridging the Middle-Skills Gap: Connecting a Diverse Workforce to Economic Opportunity Through Certificates and Associate’s Degrees finds that projected shortages present substantial opportunities for men and women of all races/ethnicities to boost their attainment of credentials that align with high-paying middle-skills occupations across four occupational groups: blue-collar; management; protective services; and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Nationwide, there is an annual shortage of nearly 712,000 middle-skills credentials aligned with high-paying middle-skills occupations, projected to last until at least 2032. The largest credential shortages will be for middle-skills credentials aligned with high-paying blue-collar occupations (360,800), followed by high-paying management and professional office occupations (253,000) and STEM occupations (87,500). Certificates and associate’s degrees aligned with high-paying protective services occupations (10,600) will experience more moderate annual shortages through 2032. Healthcare is the only high-paying occupational group for early-career middle-skills workers that does not face a projected national shortage of certificates and associate’s degrees.
In a new report, @GeorgetownCEW finds that the US is facing shortages of middle-skills credentials that provide pathways for early-career workers to secure jobs in occupations that are high-paying for workers without a bachelor’s degree. Read more: https://bit.ly/3F98McL |
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Credential shortages present a substantial opportunity for workers to earn a good living even if they don’t complete a four-year degree. But to ensure that this opportunity is available to people of all genders and races/ethnicities, we need to widen the pathways to attainment of credentials that align with high-paying middle-skills jobs, create more reliable transitions from those credentials to the labor market, and address disparities in pay and employment within high-paying middle-skills occupations. Filling shortages in these occupations in a way that creates equitable access to opportunity is good for everyone: workers, employers, the American economy, and society at large.
To view the report, visit cew.georgetown.edu/bridging-middle-skills-gap. |
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