New Report Links Education and Economic Development

As state and local governments face tough funding choices and tight budgets, a new Economic Policy Institute report shows adequate and effective funding of education is the best way to achieve faster growth, more jobs, greater productivity, and more widely shared prosperity.

Smart Money: Education and Economic Development, written by economic development expert and researcher William Schweke, shows how increased investment in education, from preschool to college, provides concrete returns to economic development through increases in productivity, learned skills, technology and workers' average earnings.

For journalists across the country, Schweke will join a panel of education and economic experts to lead a media conference call on how investment in education is essential in advancing economic equality and keeping the U.S. workforce competitive in a knowledge-based economy.

Get it here.