A recent report from the Lumina Foundation — A Stronger Nation: Learning Beyond High School Builds American Talent — shows that the national educational attainment rate for those earning a certificate or higher has increased for those aged 25 to 64 from 38 percent in 2009 to 54 percent to 2021. But the national goal for the share of the population earning a certificate or more is higher, at 60 percent by 2025. In the same period, Minnesota’s educational attainment rate increased from 45 percent to 60 percent. And our state similarly has a goal that we haven’t met — to have 70 percent of the population earning a certificate or more by 2025.