Proposed state higher-education cuts will exacerbate a projected shortage of college graduates and imperil California’s long-term economic future, a new report says… If California cannot produce more college graduates, businesses that need highly skilled workers will leave the state and others will not locate here, said David Stewart, dean of the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management at UC Riverside. "In my view, this is the most severe economic problem California confronts," he said. The shortage of college graduates will worsen California’s budget problems, because they on average make more money than those without degrees, and pay more taxes, Stewart said.

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by David Olson, The Press-Enterprise.

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