Higher education in Minnesota
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 103 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5144-1711-7
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! There are 54 Minnesota State Colleges and University campuses spread across 87 counties in Minnesota. Localities competitively bid for the construction of MnSCU campuses; each campus creates jobs in the surrounding areas, either directly through employment or indirectly by attracting industry and development. The January 2011 Bureau of Labor Statistics publication displays a growing disparity in unemployment rates in Minnesota, ranging from Rock County with 5.4% to Clearwater County with 16.9%. In an effort to understand the disparities, research is conducted to ask why counties with multiple publicly funded institutions, such as Winona County, tend to have lower than national average unemployment rates (6.8% versus 9.8%)? To answer this question, the unadjusted unemployment rate will be compared to the number of institutions per county. It is hypothesized that the more institutions a county has (0-7), the lower the unemployment rate will...