Higher Education Has Great Value, but Gender Pay Gap an Ongoing Problem

By Chris Hassan. In a recent economic news release, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shared a summary of the usual weekly earnings of 104.3 million full-time wage and salary workers for the first quarter of 2014. The data revealed two important takeaways. First, that higher education continues to influence people's salaries, and second, that the gender pay gap is still a very real problem. Read more...