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American Cities.
City Dividends
National Gains
Talent
The Approach
Cities di er in educational attainment Di erences reveal opportunities for improvement Improvement gains estimated from evidence Gains represent potential payback from better policies
The Hypothesis
The Evidence
Education Explains Most Differences in Metro Income
Annual Per Capita Income, 2005
$50,000 $48,000 $46,000 $44,000 $42,000 $40,000 $38,000 $36,000 $34,000 $32,000 $30,000 15 20 25 30
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Percent of Population with a 4-Year College Degree, 2006 Sources: BEA (Income), Census (Education)
Dropouts
Advanced Degrees
Educational Attainment
Talent Measures % 12.9% 31.9% 23.6% 31.6% 9.1% 38.7% 32.6% 38,532 No. of People 497,068 1,229,183 909,364 1,217,623 62,921 267,589 Educational Attainment (Population 25 and Older) Less than High School High School Only Some College/AA Four-year Degree Less than High School Four-year Degree Goal Additional degree holders Talent Dividend
Three-quarters of the workers that were fired over the last year were let go on a permanent, not a temporary basis.
Data from Public Agenda surveys of US adults from the past decade
National survey of 872 likely voters conducted April 17-20, 2010 by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner
City Dividends
$4.4 billion $1.1 billion $464 million
Moving the needle on any one of these while holding the others constant will lead to increasing postsecondary attainment. Moving the needle on all ve will quickly accelerate cities reaching and surpassing their Talent Dividend goal.
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