“Which Cities Have Biggest Education-Jobs Mismatch?”

A recent Brookings Institution study measures the regional education mismatch between online job postings in a metro area and workers in that area. The education gap is the percentage difference between the average years of education in job postings and the average years of education in area.

As the chart below shows, there is huge regional variation, with many hard hit areas in California’s inland with the biggest gaps, and brain hubs like Raleigh and Washington D.C. with the smallest gaps. For the nation as a whole, the average is about five percentage points.

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