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Brain Drain Plugs.
Attracting students to college and keeping graduates in Indiana
When people complain about Indiana losing talented college graduates and its near-dead-last ranking in the number of residents with college degrees, they often credit a think tank for shining light on the situation. The Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute's "Human Capital Retention Project" studies funded largely by Lilly Endowment, have documented the situation; starting with a 1998 report highlighting Indiana's 48th-place ranking among the states in adults with four or more years of college (the latest numbers, from 2000, place Indiana 50th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia). Attention turned to alarm when the institute issued a first-of-its-kind study detailing the exodu...See the full content of this document
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