Improve Access to Postsecondary Education

Jamie P. Merisotis, President, Lumina Foundation
State of the Union address, 2012

On Tuesday, Jan. 24, President Barack Obama took note of the need to reduce the cost of higher education to assure that Americans continue to have access to the educational opportunities they need to succeed and contribute to the strengthening of our nation. As the President indicated, higher education is an economic imperative. Jobs that require skills and knowledge that can only be obtained through postsecondary education, including a growing number of advanced manufacturing jobs, are growing much faster than those that don’t.

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