Education Meanderings

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The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce is an independent, nonprofit research and policy institute that studies the link between education, career qualifications and workforce demands.

“Because healthcare represents an immense and growing chunk of U.S. economic consumption, its workforce is large and will continue to grow in tandem.  To meet the swelling demand for care, the number of healthcare workers will have to expand by almost 30 percent overall by 2020—the most dramatic growth of any sector of the United States over the next ten years.”

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