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However, policy decisions can destabilize this bridge and reinforce broader structural inequities, including occupational segregation and student loan debt. To address the structural inequities that delay and derail Georgians’ opportunities to reach economic security, state lawmakers should:  \n• Prioritize state investments to close Georgia’s student-to-counselor access gaps.  \n• Promote successful college completion and alleviate the burden of student loan debt by establishing a state need-based financial aid program. This program can be funded by various sources, such as general funds and the education lottery, and can offer financial assistance to Georgians pursuing four-year degrees, short-term certifications and those taking unpaid internships. By doing so, higher education can become more accessible and affordable for all.  \n• Improve job quality as a bridge to workforce training access, expand workforce training access to global talent and include racial equity-centered components within Georgia’s State Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Plan that tracks and addresses digital skills gaps and monitors workforce training program-level outcomes.  \nIntroduction  \nThis report highlights the economic security barriers within Georgia’s higher education and workforce systems and the ways they perpetuate occupational segregation. 1 The analysis also underscores the role that job quality plays across both systems in securing future bridges for economically disadvantaged Georgians. Although work-based income is not appropriate for every Georgian, state lawmakers have a duty to provide an equitable means for all who seek employment or job skill development to obtain better wages, job mobility, stability and long-term pathways to wealth-building.  \nOccupational segregation occurs when people, particularly women and people of color, are relegated to certain industries or sectors – often those that pay low wages. Occupational segregation is a collection of structural practices within educational, workforce and other systems that reinforce inequitable workforce patterns. For example, biased academic practices funnel students into credentials or fields of study according to their race, ethnicity, immigrant status or gender. Other practices make postsecondary attainment unaffordable for those at or below the economic margins, which reproduce inequities that can cut across the demographics listed above. Occupational segregation doesn’t just bar select individuals from pathways to quality jobs, it ultimately harms everyone. Occupational segregation stifles the state’s labor force adaptability and weakens productivity across Georgia’s broader economy.  \nThis report also highlights the importance of addressing specific structural barriers that fail to prioritize worker needs or racially-equitable training outcomes by emphasizing three critical bridges: investing in quality high school student counseling, expanding access to postsecondary education and workforce training and improving the public workforce system.2  \nGeorgia has already begun to make positive progress as state policymakers have taken recent steps to reinforce the education-to-workforce bridge. Those steps include boosting state investments incentivizing businesses to expand registered apprenticeships, expanding college completion grants to improve college affordability, prioritizing student-parents for state child care subsidies , initiating steps to reduce four-year degree requirements for state public sector jobs and expanding broadband internet access to bridge the digital divide across education and workforce systems throughout the state. However, these changes fal","cbCailudEcbraxXx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailudEcbraxXx","pdf",710330,17,"English","# Executive Summary\n# Introduction\n# Breaking Barriers\n## Barrier: Limited Access to Quality Counseling-Guiding Pathways to Success","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the report identify in Georgia’s education-to-workforce bridge?\",\"answer\":\"It identifies structural inequities that destabilize the education-to-workforce bridge, including occupational segregation and student loan debt, which delay and derail economic security opportunities for Georgians.\"},{\"question\":\"How does occupational segregation affect Georgia’s labor market?\",\"answer\":\"The report explains that occupational segregation relegates people—especially women and people of color—to low-wage industries, weakening labor force adaptability and reducing productivity across the state’s broader economy.\"},{\"question\":\"What barrier does the report highlight under “Breaking Barriers”?\",\"answer\":\"It highlights limited access to quality counseling-guiding pathways in public education, noting that high school students need comprehensive counseling to transition into higher education or workforce training and that Georgia’s student-to-counselor ratio remains far above recommended levels.\"}]","Expanding Access to Higher Education and Workforce Training in Georgia | PDF",1792701274,43]