Fewer and fewer Californians will have high school diplomas and college degrees in the coming years, and they'll be making less money. That's according to a new report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. KPBS reporter Beth Ford Roth has the story.
The report finds the proportion of workers who'll have graduated from high school, or earned a college degree, is expected to decrease in the next fifteen years in California.
That's because, according to the study, minorities are making up a growing proportion of the workforce. And National Center President Patrick Callan says the state isn't educating its minority children as well as the white children.
Callan: "If we don't do a better job of educating all Californians, we're likely to pay for it, not just in terms of the opportunities that these kids will be deprived of, but that it will affect the standard of living for the whole state."
Callan says with fewer educated workers, personal income in California is projected to decline 11 percent. That reverses a trend of personal incoming increasing in California in the last twenty years. Beth Ford Roth, KPBS news.
