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Project team 1, section A: Rani Murali, Rose Khattar, Amanda Said, Emily Fry
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Analyze Education Dataset #20

Open amandasaid opened 3 years ago

amandasaid commented 3 years ago

User Story: Sunrise Mvt D of Edu

amandasaid commented 3 years ago

Using the BLS data and the list of occupations in the Brookings report, we can look at the typical education required to enter the workforce in the clean energy economy. image

amandasaid commented 3 years ago

I have also broken it down for the three sub-sectors (from Brookings): clean energy production, energy efficiency, and environmental management

amandasaid commented 3 years ago

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amandasaid commented 3 years ago

Note: we can break down educational attainment levels by gender/race if we would like to include it. However, most of these jobs require more on-the-job training than actual formal education and most actually just require HS diplomas. Finding disparities in HS completion is probably too broad for our scope.

Having an educational attainment focus may just not work for our project but happy to discuss more

ranimurali412 commented 3 years ago

Nice!! love these. yep, I was thinking that about educational attainment vs on-the-job training. might be better to look at access to/availability of training programs for manufacturing-type climate jobs, but these programs are typically developed at the local level. let's discuss tomorrow! we might have enough for now with the industry data.

Emily-coding commented 3 years ago

Really interesting. The Biden-Sanders unity taskforce has some good content on training: Also "Democrats will also mobilize a diverse new generation of young workers through a corps and cohort challenged to conserve our public lands; deliver new clean energy, including to lowincome communities and communities of color; and address the changing climate, including through pre-apprenticeship opportunities, joint labor-management registered apprenticeships for training, and direct-hire programs that put good-paying and union jobs within reach for more Americans." https://joebiden.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/UNITY-TASK-FORCE-RECOMMENDATIONS.pdf

I wonder if the questions we should be asking are geographic, or urban/rural, or another lens given that lots of the jobs would be via apprenticeships etc?

I also found this ILO report interesting on engineering training gaps, but maybe less relevant for US http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/---ifp_skills/documents/publication/wcms_168354.pdf