Productivity has grown more in states with greater growth in the educational attainment of their workforce: Relationship between state productivity growth and increase in college attainment from 1979 to 2012
Source: EPI analysis of unpublished total economy productivity data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Labor Productivity and Costs program, state employment data from BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics, and college attainment data from the Current Population Survey basic monthly microdata