Investing in Value Policy Brief — HCM Strategists
Just looking at median earnings compared to thresholds like poverty is insufficient, as medians, by definition, mean that half of students in the cohort earn less than that amount. College Scorecard data reveal that, in a single year, an estimated 880,000 students earned less than the high school median salary five years after graduating. This excludes students who were not working at all. States are uniquely positioned to use student-level data to determine their own value thresholds as well...| HCM Strategists
