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Wages climbed for college grads in the 1970s and 80s, says Mishel, but since 2002 wage growth for people with a bachelors has been stagnant. But Lawrence Mishel, a labor market economist with the Economic Policy Institute, sees it much differently: “I think we’re way past that tipping point.”.
And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 Since 2002, official state policy in Massachusetts has been that English-learners should be educated in English-only classrooms. percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent. Once you have that, no one can take that away from you.”.
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