The Brookings Institute’s State of Metropolitan America report is full of interesting data. This map highlights the fact that while throughout most of our history educational attainment has risen rapidly in America, that hasn’t been the case over the past generation. Consequently, in many metropolitan areas younger workers are worse-educated on average than the cohort above them. The trends are illustrated thusly:
If I’m reading this correctly, Oklahoma City is the only major metropolitan area west of the Mississippi not experiencing this skills deterioration.
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