Senior Fellow Alan Berube says community colleges offer educational opportunities to a growing number of students and are a critical part of the national economy and our metropolitan areas. He discusses a new paper that was released on May 7 at the event “Transforming America’s Community Colleges: A Federal Policy Proposal to Expand Opportunity and Promote Economic Prosperity.”
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Commentary
Community Colleges and the National Economy
May 1, 2009