‼️ Bipartisan and near-unanimous votes for this financial aid bill: “On Wednesday, the Indiana House voted 89-1 to give final approval to House Enrolled Act 1449. It last week passed the Senate, 48-0.”
Which state has the *highest* scores for low-income students:
1. Florida (233 pts)
2. Wyoming (232)
3. Indiana (229)
Which state has the *lowest* scores for low-income students:
3. Delaware (210)
2. Maryland (210)
1. Puerto Rico (176)
The full report contains completion trends by
🎓Campus type
🎓Part-time students
🎓Student population
🎓All public Indiana institutions
https://t.co/ZOvadzkt3d
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On-time completion rates have been steadily improving across all campus types. Over the past five years, on-time completion has increased by 11 percentage points.
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4/ Incomes are growing in rural Indiana, but are heavily connected to the share of adults with a Bachelor's Degree or higher level of educational attainment. There are a couple of outliers (big rural power plant), but otherwise, education is driving geographic wage differences.
New CBO report: The poorest *half* of America -- ~150 million people -- hold only *2 percent* of the country's total wealth
Wealth of top 10 percent has grown markedly since 1989
That tiny little line at the bottom of this chart is half the country