Higher Education

Half of U.S. adults say colleges and universities that brought students back to campus made the right decision, while 48% say they did not.

Between February and June 2020, the share of young adults who are neither enrolled in school nor employed has more than doubled.

The drop in employment in three months of the COVID-19 recession is more than double the drop effected by the Great Recession over two years.

The COVID-19 pandemic sent many on the move to places other than their usual residence – and they may not know where or how to be counted.

The educational attainment of recently arrived Latino immigrants in the U.S. has reached its highest level in at least three decades.

The 30-year low reflects in part tight labor markets and falling unemployment, but also higher shares of young women at work or in school.

Black and Hispanic adults are more likely than whites to say they feel a need to change the way they talk around people of other races and ethnicities.

Household incomes in the United States have rebounded from their 2012 bottom in the wake of the Great Recession. And for the most part, the typical incomes of households headed by less-educated adults as well as more-educated adults have increased.

About one-third of adults under age 30 have student loan debt. In 2016, the amount students owed varied widely, especially by degree attained.

Around a quarter of college faculty in the U.S. were nonwhite in fall 2017, compared with 45% of students.