A new report by the Brookings Institution found that there is a direct link to the amount of education a job seeker has on his or her resume and the unemployment rate. According to the Education, Demand and Unemployment in Metropolitan America study, the education gap in the U.S. may be getting worse, as the years of schooling required by the average job grew to outpace the supply of educated workers between 2005 and 2009. Study co-author Jonathan Rothwell found that across the nation, the education gap in the health and education sectors continued to grow, with metro areas reporting the biggest shortages of educated skilled workers. The Riverside-San Bernadino-Ontario, California metro area had one of the highest education gaps in the nation, according to the study, with the average working resident having only completed 12.9 years of education. Areas that had some of the lowest education gaps included Washington, D.C. and Madison, Wisconsin. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that professionals with an advanced degree on their resume have the potential to earn $1,000 more per week than those with some or no college education. |