Graduate America Priority 1 (GAP1) is dedicated to providing every American community with a measurable, community-based, employer-supported program to help this country lead the world in higher education degree rates by 2020. This program is targeted at the 40,000,000 American adults who have never pursued a college degree or those who possess some higher education but lack degrees required by today’s employers.
2. www.GraduateAmericaPriority1.org WASHINGTON, D.C. | January 26, 2011 - Rep. John Kline, Chairman of the U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee confirmed that unemployment remains above 9 percent and 14.5 million Americans remain unemployed. Source: Education & The Workforce Committee Website / Press Releases
4. The USA Is NOT Workforce Ready! According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, America has dropped from 1st in the world to 12th…with only 40% of U.S. adults deemed to be “workforce ready.” www.GraduateAmericaPriority1.org
7. www.GraduateAmericaPriority1.org We Have A Leak In The Process… With 100 students entering the educational process, over 40% have started and dropped-out, or never pursued a postsecondary degree.
8. www.GraduateAmericaPriority1.org The Solution: Execute the measurable, community-based, employer-supported program, developed by Missouri-based Graduate America Priority 1, targeted at getting 40,000,000 American Adults back into School. This program includes Three Key Components: Employee Sponsors American Adults Seeking Advancement or Entrance into the Workforce The GAP1 “Workforce Ready 2020” Program
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10. Directly impact the community with newly-educated citizens who are “Workforce Ready.”
16. Increase your capability to be more competitive in the Job Market by qualifying for positions that require a higher education.
17. Increase your potential for earning a higher salary.“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." - Christopher Morley
20. Increase Community and National Economic Outlook.“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. “John Quincy Adams “I want to help people better themselves and their financial situations by finding careers that are more than jobs.”Rick Sandvig – GAP1 TraineeAssisting 4 Adults
21. www.GraduateAmericaPriority1.org The Impact of Just One Community… If we follow the CEO’s for Cities Talent Divided model that each additional percentage point improvement in aggregate adult four-year college attainment is associated with a $763 increase in annual per capita income, we can estimate the economic impact this will have on St. Charles County Missouri. 335,367People in St. Charles County Missouri X $763.00 The average Per Capita Increase Per Adult Educated$255,885.021.00 In Potential Revenue This equation reflects a simple 1% increase in Adult Degrees. GAP1 and the National Goal for this same region is actually a 2% annual increase or a half billion dollar impact to St. Charles County. Raising the national median of the top 51 Metro areas from 29.4 to 30.4 percent would be associated with an increase in income of $124 billion per year for the Nation!
22. www.GraduateAmericaPriority1.org Get Started Doing Your Part… To Register as a Sponsor or an upcoming Seminar, or to simply learn more about our progress in preparing the USA to be “Workforce Ready by 2020”, visit our website at: www.GraduateAmericaPriority1.com Or Contact our Public Relations Coordinator at: Julie Eudy Golden Services Group P.O. Box 689 St. Peters, MO 63376 PH: 636-379-1750 Email: Julie@GoldenServicesGroup.com FIND US ONLINE Graduate America Priority 1 GAP1org Graduate America Priority 1
