{"id":5954,"date":"2012-03-28T12:25:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T16:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2012-03-28T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T16:25:04","slug":"florida-not-producing-enough-college-graduates-to-meet-job-market-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/03\/28\/florida-not-producing-enough-college-graduates-to-meet-job-market-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Not Producing Enough College Graduates To Meet Job Market Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5955\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 214px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Graduation day at Northwest Florida State College. A new report shows Florida isn't producing enough college graduates to meet job market demands.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/03\/NWFCGraduation.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5955\" title=\"NWFCGraduation\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/03\/NWFCGraduation-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/03\/NWFCGraduation-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/03\/NWFCGraduation.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">sean.flynn \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graduation day at Northwest Florida State College. A new report shows Florida isn&#39;t producing enough college graduates to meet job market demands.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida is not producing enough college graduates to meet the projected job market needs by 2018, according to a new report from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luminafoundation.org\/states_landing\/a_stronger_nation_through_education\/\">Lumina Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunshine State ranks 31st in the nation for the percentage of adults who have earned a college degree.<\/p>\n<p>About 36.5 percent of state residents have earned an associate&#8217;s, bachelor&#8217;s or a graduate or professional degree. Nationally, 38.3 percent of adults have a college degree.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Lumina Foundation projects 59 percent of jobs will require a college degree by 2018, but Florida will fall far short of that mark at its current pace. The result could mean many state residents are frozen out of high-paying jobs that come with a college degree.<\/p>\n<p>The state trails national rates for most racial groups as well. However, Hispanics are the exception. More than 31 percent of Florida Hispanics have a college degree, while nationally just 19 percent of Hispanics have a degree.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luminafoundation.org\/state\/florida\">Florida results here<\/a>, and read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luminafoundation.org\/states_landing\/a_stronger_nation_through_education\/\">full report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida is not producing enough college graduates to meet the projected job market needs by 2018, according to a new report from the Lumina Foundation. The Sunshine State ranks 31st in the nation for the percentage of adults who have earned a college degree. About 36.5 percent of state residents have earned an associate&#8217;s, bachelor&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":5955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1096,125,334,1110],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}