As state legislators move to hold the line on new spending for the University of Wisconsin System, a new study suggests the state’s economy is suffering from a lack of knowledge workers armed with college degrees.
In 2004 Wisconsin trailed the U.S. average in the percentage of college graduates, with 25.6 percent of state adults, or about 906,000 people, holding a university degree, compared to 27.7 percent of the country as a whole, according a report released Wednesday by NorthStar Economics and the Wisconsin Technology Council.
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