Indiana Business Review articles from June 2002

Indiana Business Review archives from June 2002

Indiana makes progress on the educational attainment gap.
June 22, 2002... One area of continuing concern for Hoosiers has been the educational attainment of our citizens. Education is regarded as a key to economic development. In the past, Indiana has lagged the nation in attainment of degrees. In addition, great...

Educational attainment and our neighboring states.
June 22, 2002... Between the 1990 and 2000 censuses, Indiana and its neighboring states showed similar declines among adults with less than a high school education and increases in those with at least a high school diploma or some college (see Table 1). Ohio...

Learn more, earn more.
June 22, 2002... Recent government studies based on national household surveys confirm what many of us already know or assume--the more you learn, the more you earn. But that's just a catchy way of saying that the more advanced the degree the greater the...

Census facts revealed: a census 2000 update.
June 22, 2002... A snippet of long form data was released to us in May. Here is a smattering of what we have learned so far: * 82 percent of adults have a high school diploma (or equivalency) or more. * 48,181 grandparents in Indiana live with and are...