Tucson’s educational attainment rate increased by 4.9 percentage points since 2000 but is losing ground to the U.S., according to the Making Action Possible Dashboard, a project of the Economic and Business Research Center at the University of Arizona Eller College of Management.
Tucson economy: Tucson college education level growing slower than U.S.
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