Monday, May 31, 2004
MDC, an economic development think tank in North Carolina, has issued its State of the South report for 2004.
The report puts the South's demographic challenge in a nutshell: The black and Hispanic populations of Southern states are growing, and the young people in these groups continue to lag behind in educational achievement. If this trend is not reversed, then the South can expect to have a larger percentage of its population failing to get the education needed for 21st century jobs.
Read more. You can download the report. Go.
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Status report on the South
