Adjustment to Blindness Training — Adjustment to Blindness Training gives individuals with a vision loss the skills necessary to work competitively and live independently.
Adult Career Pathways
Office of Adult Career Pathways — Provide adults who traditionally face multiple barriers to employment to be successful in securing long-term family sustaining wages.
Adult Direct Appropriations
Adult Direct Appropriations — Authorizations by the legislature to spend money from the state treasury for purposes established in law.
Angel Tax Credit — Provides incentives to investors or investment funds that put money into startup and emerging companies focused on high or new proprietary technology.
Architectural Barrier Removal Tax Deduction
Tax Credits — Businesses that accommodate people with disabilities may qualify for tax credits and deductions.
State Services for the Blind — Provide the tools, training and technology to help people who are blind, low vision, DeafBlind or experiencing vision loss.
Border Cities Enterprise Zone Program for business
Border-Cities Enterprise Zone Program — Provides business tax credits to qualifying businesses that are the source of investment, development, and job creation or retention.
Border Cities Enterprise Zone Program for government
Border-Cities Enterprise Zone Program — Business tax credits to qualifying businesses that are the source of investment, development, and job creation or retention in the zoned cities.
Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant Program
Broadband Grant Program — Used to fund the build out of infrastructure to promote the expansion of broadband service to areas of the state that are unserved or underserved.
Bridge to Career Pathways
Bridge to Career Pathways — Individuals seeking to improve or obtain new skills to earn an industry recognized credential, in an industry identified as in demand within their region.
Broadband
Broadband Grant Program — Used to fund the build out of infrastructure to promote the expansion of broadband service to areas of the state that are unserved or underserved.
Office of Broadband Development — Helps Minnesotans understand broadband options available and work together to improve availability and use of high speed broadband services.
The Minnesota Business Vitality Council (MBVC) — Streamlines the process for complex business startups, expansions or relocations that involve issues that overlap multiple state agencies.
CareerForce — Guide people toward rewarding careers & provide valuable economic & employment development information for employers.
Child Care Community Partnerships
Office of Child Care Community Partnerships — Supports and promotes the expansion of quality child care statewide and accessibility to child care for underserved communities.
Child Care Economic Development
Child Care Economic Development — DEED will award grants to be used to implement solutions to reduce the child care shortage in the state.
Clean Water Revolving Fund
Clean Water Revolving Fund — Helps communities build or upgrade wastewater treatment plants to comply with discharge standards in the federal Clean Water Act.
Infrastructure Funding — Helps communities finance the construction of basic infrastructure needed to protect public health and safety and pave the way for economic growth.
Cleanup Revolving Loan Program
Cleanup Revolving Loan Program — Provides low-interest loans through the EPA to cleanup contaminated sites that can be returned to marketable use.
Community Partners Committee
Community Partners Committee — Provides strategic advice and consultation to DEED's vocational rehabilitation services programs.
Community Wealth Building Program
Community Wealth Building Program — Makes low-interest loans to community businesses that are at least 51% owned by targeted populations.
Contact Us
Contact Us — Visit us in-person. Or phone us. Or email us. Engage us in conversation via our social media accounts. Read our news and subscribe to our news feeds.
Contamination Cleanup and Investigation Grant Program
Credit Enhancement Program — The Credit Enhancement Program helps cities and counties reduce the costs of borrowing to build certain public facilities.
Infrastructure Funding — Helps communities finance the construction of basic infrastructure needed to protect public health and safety and pave the way for economic growth.
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Data Center Tax Incentives
Data Center Sales Tax Incentives — Minnesota offers sales tax exemptions to companies that invest qualifying amounts in data centers.
Deafblind, Services for
State Services for the Blind — Provide the tools, training and technology to help people who are blind, low vision, DeafBlind or experiencing vision loss.
Demolition Loan Program
Demolition Loan Program — Helps development authorities with costs of demolishing blighted buildings on sites having future development potential but no current development plans
Disability Determination Services
Disability Determination Services — Evaluates claims for disability benefits using SSA guidelines. The program provides benefits to persons with disabilities who are not able to work.
Disability Employment Specialists
Work with an Employment Specialist — Our Employment Specialists can help your business tap into the pipeline of talent that workers with disabilities can provide.
Disabled Access Credit
Tax Credits — Businesses that accommodate people with disabilities may qualify for tax credits and deductions.
Dislocated Worker Program — The Dislocated Worker Program offers employment and training services for eligible workers. Minnesota operates both a state and a federal program.
Dislocated Worker Program — Services are designed to help workers who have been laid off overcome difficult barriers and get back to work as quickly as possible.
Dislocated Worker Program for service providers
Dislocated Worker Program — The Dislocated Worker Program offers employment and training services for eligible workers. Minnesota operates both a state and a federal program.
Homemakers Returning to Work — We help people who have worked mainly in the home develop the marketable skills needed to find and maintain a job.
Drinking Water Revolving Fund
Drinking Water Revolving Fund — Helps communities build drinking water storage, treatment and distribution systems that comply with standards in the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Infrastructure Funding — Helps communities finance the construction of basic infrastructure needed to protect public health and safety and pave the way for economic growth.
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EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program
EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program — Intended to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by offering foreign investors a permanent resident visa.
Emerging Entrepreneur Loan Program
Emerging Entrepreneur Loan Program — Created to support the growth of minority-owned and operated businesses and to create jobs in economically distressed areas of the state.
Work at DEED — Explore how to become a DEED employee.
Energy Transition Office
Energy Transition Office — Established to advise Energy transition issues and to establish transition programs, economic initiatives, and transition policy.
Equity
Equity — Leads internal DEED efforts and external community engagement to reduce the disparities faced by populations with barriers to employment.
Office of New Americans — Help state government bring together New Americans, employers, local governments, nonprofits & other partners to create welcoming communities.
Federal Bonding Program — Fidelity Bonding is no-cost employee dishonesty insurance that protects employers against employee theft of money or property.
Federal Bonding Service for job seekers
Workers with a Difficult Job History — Provides individual Fidelity Bonds to employers for new or current employees who may be denied coverage by commercial carriers.
Federal Rural Development Financing
Federal Rural Development Financing — Loan, loan guarantee and grant programs to help farmers improve energy efficiency and expand their markets and to help rural businesses and economies grow.
Film Production Tax Credit
Film Production Tax Credit — Provides an assignable 25% tax credit for film, video, or digital media projects that expend at least $1,000,000 in eligible production costs.
Financing a Business
Financing a Business — Startup, operate or expand. Most business owners must find the money to make things happen. Targeted financing programs and guidance on financing.
First Stop
The Minnesota Business Vitality Council (MBVC) — Streamlines the process for complex business startups, expansions or relocations that involve issues that overlap multiple state agencies.
Foreign Labor Certification
Hiring Foreign Workers — The Foreign Labor Certification Program allows employers to hire foreign workers as permanent or temporary employees.
Funding sources for businesses
City, County, and Regional Funding Sources — Local governmental units provide some assistance to entrepreneurs. Assistance may include financial services, loan packaging, technical assistance, etc.
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Getting to Work Competitive Grant
Getting to Work Competitive Grant — Provide motor vehicles, motor vehicle repairs, or provide loans for motor vehicles that assist eligible individuals in obtaining or maintaining employment.
Getting to Work Program — Designed for nonprofit organizations to establish and operate programs that provide, repair or maintain motor vehicles to assist eligible individuals.
Go MN!
Go MN! — Go MN! is a program through VRS which helps individuals with disabilities explore opportunities in Minnesota’s growing transportation industry.
Governor’s Committee on the Safety, Health, and Wellbeing of Agricultural and Food Processing Workers
Grant and Contract Opportunities — Solicitation announcements of competitive grant and professional/technical (PT) services contract opportunities are posted here.
Greater Minnesota Child Care Capacity Partnerships
Greater Minnesota Child Care Capacity Partnerships — Partnerships with Minnesota Initiative Foundations support community planning efforts that sustain & increase access to child care in their service areas.
Greater Minnesota Child Care Facility Grants
Greater Minnesota Child Care Facility Grants — Grants to keep or enhance jobs, increase the tax base, or expand or create new economic development in the area in which the grants are made.
Higher Education Career Advisors Pilot — Partnering with public school districts to assist high school students in choosing careers and the education and training required for those careers.
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Independent Living
Living Independently — We offer services statewide to help you live independently and to function in your home, at work and in your community.
Individualized Training Pathways
Individualized Training Pathways — Post-secondary partner or Union Apprenticeship and an active employer partner to further support participants within the specific industry trainings.
Innovative Business Development Public Infrastructure (BDPI)
Innovative Business Development Program — The Innovative Business Development Public Infrastructure (BDPI) program provides grants to local governmental units on a competitive basis statewide.
Data — Nothing tells a story like numbers. And here is where we let them do the talking. Here you’ll find data and data tools.
Data for Government — State and local governments can use data to make smarter decisions. Our tools and experts can help your community.
Data for Job Seekers — Before you pick a major, head down a career path or start a job search, our data tools can help research the options and see which opportunities stand out.
Layoffs - Workers
For Workers Facing a Layoff — If you've been laid off through no fault of your own, eligible to receive UI, and unlikely to return to your previous occupation or industry, we can help.
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MBVC
The Minnesota Business Vitality Council (MBVC) — Streamlines the process for complex business startups, expansions or relocations that involve issues that overlap multiple state agencies.
Migrant and Seasonal Farm Worker Program
Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers — Whether the job is on or off the farm, our Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Service can help farm workers and the employers who hire them. Contact our Agriculture Outreach Representative near you.
The Minnesota Business Vitality Council (MBVC) — Streamlines the process for complex business startups, expansions or relocations that involve issues that overlap multiple state agencies.
Minnesota Business Vitality Council
The Minnesota Business Vitality Council (MBVC) — Streamlines the process for complex business startups, expansions or relocations that involve issues that overlap multiple state agencies.
Minnesota Council on Disability (MCD)
Other State Councils — State councils on disability that work with Minnesota's Vocational Rehabilitation Services programs.
Minnesota Economic Recovery Jobs Program
Minnesota Economic Recovery Jobs Program — This program provides training and creates career readiness and work experience opportunities for young adults in the seven-county metro area.
Minnesota Economic Trends
Minnesota Economic Trends — Minnesota Economic Trends is our quarterly magazine that provides expert analysis of the state's labor market, industries and economy.
TANF Youth Innovation Project — Partnership between DHS, DEED, and MAWB provide structured work experiences and introduction to career pathways to youth receiving MFIP benefits.
Minnesota Foreign Trade Zones
Minnesota Foreign Trade Zones — Used to store foreign or domestic goods, re-package materials, assemble products, manufacture or re-export goods without paying Customs duties.
Minnesota Forward Fund
Minnesota Forward Fund — Grants and loans to businesses making large private capital investments in new and existing industries for which federal funding requires a state match.
Minnesota Investment Fund (MIF)
Minnesota Investment Fund (MIF) — Provides financing to help add new workers and retain high-quality jobs on a statewide basis. Focus on industrial, manufacturing, and technology-related.
Minnesota Job Service
Minnesota Job Service — Job Services focus is to deliver services to help job seekers find work and help employers find and retain qualified employees.
Minnesota Job Skills Partnership (MJSP)
Training Grant Programs — Works with businesses, educational institutions and nonprofit organizations to train or retrain workers, and expand work opportunities.
Minnesota Trade Office (MTO)
Exporting and Trade — MTO, our international business unit, provides training and expertise small and midsized companies need to export goods and services worldwide.
Minnesota Youth Program for job seekers
Minnesota Youth Program — The Minnesota Youth Program serves low-income and at-risk youth ages 14 to 24 who lack academic and "applied skills" considered critical for current and future workplace needs.
Minnesota Youth Program for service providers
Minnesota Youth Program — Provided through a network of public and private nonprofit youth service providers, CareerForce locations, & partnerships with local education agencies.
MinnesotaWorks.net
Search MinnesotaWorks.net — View job listings from private employers statewide. Upload your resume, apply for jobs, manage and track your job search.
View Job Listings — Search MinnesotaWorks.net, our online jobs database, at no cost. View thousands of job listings from private employers statewide.
MN Family Resiliency Partnership
MN Family Resiliency Partnership — Assists individuals who have spent a number of years in the home providing homemaking services & have been dependent upon financial support of another.
MN RETAIN Program for service providers
Minnesota RETAIN — To provide intervention strategies for workers to stay or return to work as soon as medically possible after an injury or illness impacts their employment.
MSFW
Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers — Whether the job is on or off the farm, our Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Service can help farm workers and the employers who hire them. Contact our Agriculture Outreach Representative near you.
Native American Business Loan Program — Supports the development of Native-owned and operated businesses and promotes economic opportunities for Native peoples throughout Minnesota.
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Office of Adult Career Pathways
Office of Adult Career Pathways — Provide adults who traditionally face multiple barriers to employment to be successful in securing long-term family sustaining wages.
Office of Broadband
Broadband Grant Program — Used to fund the build out of infrastructure to promote the expansion of broadband service to areas of the state that are unserved or underserved.
Office of Broadband Development — Helps Minnesotans understand broadband options available and work together to improve availability and use of high speed broadband services.
Office of Dislocated Worker & Federal Adult Programs
Workplace Safety for Youth — State and federal child labor law information, as well as other resources for keeping youth safe on the job.
On-Ramp to Career Pathways
On-Ramp to Career Pathways — Targets individuals interested in earning a certificate and improving their employability.
Opioids - The Minnesota Initiative (OMNI) for service providers
Opioids - The Minnesota Initiative (OMNI) — Opioids - The Minnesota Initiative (OMNI) project is a workforce development initiative which seeks to address the state's opioid crisis.
Opportunity Zones — Tax incentives in low-income urban and rural communities nationwide to draw long-term investment to areas that are in the most economic need.
Pathways to Prosperity — Programs and services designed to provide workforce development and training opportunities to economically disadvantaged adults.
Infrastructure Funding — Helps communities finance the construction of basic infrastructure needed to protect public health and safety and pave the way for economic growth.
Policy and Guidance — Service providers rely on DEED policies to ensure their services comply with federal and state laws and rules and with DEED policy requirements.
Promise Act Grant Program
Promise Act Grant Program — This program, through a series of statewide partner organizations, will award grants to eligible businesses in specific communities.
Promise Loan Program
Promise Loan Program — Provides loans to businesses located in communities adversely affected by racial discrimination, civil unrest, and other challenges.
Public Meeting Notices
Public Meeting Notices — Meetings of DEED-affiliated advisory groups are open to the public.
Upcoming Events — Important conferences. Career Fairs. Seminars for your business. We have a lot to offer. View all of our upcoming events.
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Radio Talking Book
Radio Talking Book — This free, closed-circuit news service broadcasts current newspapers, magazines and best-selling books 24/7 on special radios we provide to clients.
Radio Talking Book — This free, closed-circuit news service broadcasts current newspapers, magazines and best-selling books 24/7 on special radios we provide to clients.
Redevelopment Grant Program
Redevelopment Grant Program — Helps communities with the costs of redeveloping blighted industrial, residential, or commercial sites and putting land back into productive use.
Re-Entry Grant
Pilot Re-Entry Grant — Provides employment and training services to individuals who require assistance in returning to or entering the workforce.
Research and Development Tax Credit — Minnesota's research and development tax credit doubles the size of the credit and also expands the credit to include more business entities.
Reservist and Veteran Business Loan Program
Reservist and Veteran Business Loan Program — Provides business loans to companies affected by employees called to active military duty and to individual veterans who have returned from active duty.
Rulemaking
Rulemaking Activity — We adopt rules to implement or make-specific a law applicable to DEED to help formulate policy necessary to administer legislatively created programs
Older Workers — We help people age 55 and older who meet eligibility guidelines get the on-the-job training and current work experience they need.
Senior Community Service Employment Program for service providers
Senior Community Service Employment Program — The Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), aims to assist unemployed individuals aged 55 and above with low incomes and limited job prospects.
Shared Vision for Youth Activities
Shared Vision for Youth Activities — Funding sources can be used to create a seamless array of services to meet the needs of participants for comprehensive, intensive & long-term services
Shared Work Program for job seekers
Shared Work Program — The Shared Work program offers an alternative to layoffs for employers facing a temporary downturn in business.
Shovel-Ready Program
Shovel-Ready Site Certification — Certified sites are more attractive to companies and site-selection consultants looking for locations for business startups, expansions or relocations.
Small Business Administration (SBA) financing programs
SBA Financing Programs — Financial assistance programs provide access to debt and equity primarily from banks or other private sources.
Small Business Assistance Office (SBAO)
Get Help From Our Experts — Our business consultants have got you covered at most any stage with expert advice and analysis to help you avoid -- or recover from -- costly mistakes.
Small Business Development Centers — Minnesota's network of Small Business Development Centers has nine main regional offices and several satellite centers statewide.
Small Business Development Centers Overview — Minnesota's network of Small Business Development Centers has nine main regional offices and several satellite centers statewide.
Community Development Funding — Help cities and counties with funding for housing, infrastructure and commercial rehabilitation projects
Small Cities Development Program — Helps cities and counties with funding for housing, infrastructure and commercial rehabilitation projects that benefit people of low and moderate incomes.
Small Community Wastewater Treatment Program
Infrastructure Funding — Helps communities finance the construction of basic infrastructure needed to protect public health and safety and pave the way for economic growth.
Small Community Wastewater Treatment Program — Provides funding to communities replacing non-complying septic systems & straight pipes with new individual or cluster subsurface sewage treatment…
Southeast Asian Economic Disparities Relief Competitive Grant Program
Starting a Business — Starting a business in Minnesota is not a single decision but a series of them, each one an important step on the road to a successful launch.
State Rehabilitation Council
State Rehabilitation Council — The council helps guide decisions about the state's vocational rehabilitation services program.
State Rehabilitation Council for the Blind (SRCB)
State Rehabilitation Council for the Blind — Advisory body providing recommendations & a perspective from the low vision, blind, and deafblind community on programs and services SSB provides.
State Services for the Blind — Provide the tools, training and technology to help people who are blind, low vision, DeafBlind or experiencing vision loss.
State Services for the Blind (SSB), Communication Center
TANF Youth Innovation Project — Partnership between DHS, DEED, and MAWB provide structured work experiences and introduction to career pathways to youth receiving MFIP benefits.
Targeted Community Capital Project
Targeted Community Capital Project Grant Program — Utilizing these funds must result in providing, increasing, and/or expanding access to underserved communities or economically disadvantaged persons or groups.
Tax Credits for Businesses
Angel Tax Credit — Provides incentives to investors or investment funds that put money into startup and emerging companies focused on high or new proprietary technology.
Border-Cities Enterprise Zone Program — Provides business tax credits to qualifying businesses that are the source of investment, development, and job creation or retention.
Data Center Sales Tax Incentives — Minnesota offers sales tax exemptions to companies that invest qualifying amounts in data centers.
Film Production Tax Credit — Provides an assignable 25% tax credit for film, video, or digital media projects that expend at least $1,000,000 in eligible production costs.
Opportunity Zones — Tax incentives in low-income urban and rural communities nationwide to draw long-term investment to areas that are in the most economic need.
Research and Development Tax Credit — Minnesota's research and development tax credit doubles the size of the credit and also expands the credit to include more business entities.
Tax Credits — Growing your business can be hard when you don't have the funding you need. Our tax credits programs can lift some of that burden off your shoulders.
Tax Credits — Businesses that accommodate people with disabilities may qualify for tax credits and deductions.
Work Opportunity Tax Credit — The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a federal tax credit available to all businesses as an incentive to hire workers in certain groups.
Ticket to Work Program
Counseling, Training, and Job Skills — Counseling, training and job skills services available through Minnesota's Vocational Rehabilitation Services office.
Trade Adjustment Assistance — The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program is available to workers who lose their jobs, hours or income as a result of increased foreign trade activity.
Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) for service providers
For Counselors and Service Providers — Our programs rely on counselors and staff located across the state at CareerForce and contracted independent organizations.
Exporting and Trade — MTO, our international business unit, provides training and expertise small and midsized companies need to export goods and services worldwide.
Transportation Economic Development Infrastructure (TEDI) Program
Application — Application process and timeline, including information sessions, for the Transportation Economic Development program.
Eligibility — Must support: manufacturing, technology, warehousing and distribution, research and development, agricultural processing, bioscience or tourism/recreation
Infrastructure Funding — Helps communities finance the construction of basic infrastructure needed to protect public health and safety and pave the way for economic growth.
Transportation Revolving Loan Fund — Provides financing to state, local and other government entities for transportation projects approved by the Minnesota DOT.
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Unemployment Insurance (UI) for job seekers
Recently Unemployed — If you’ve recently lost your job, you have many concerns and one urgent question: What now? Don’t worry.
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Vocational Rehabilitation services (VRS)
Research and Reports — Covering needs, performance and disability employment issues.
Community Partners — Vocational Rehabilitation Services (VRS) relies upon a broad coalition of partners, vendors and contractors to provide services to our consumers.
Community Partners Committee — Provides strategic advice and consultation to DEED's vocational rehabilitation services programs.
Counseling, Training, and Job Skills — Counseling, training and job skills services available through Minnesota's Vocational Rehabilitation Services office.
Living Independently — We offer services statewide to help you live independently and to function in your home, at work and in your community.
Other State Councils — State councils on disability that work with Minnesota's Vocational Rehabilitation Services programs.
People with Disabilities — Our Vocational Rehabilitation Services unit can help you prepare for, find and keep a job, and live as independently as possible.
Work with an Employment Specialist — Our Employment Specialists can help your business tap into the pipeline of talent that workers with disabilities can provide.
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Water Infrastructure Fund
Infrastructure Funding — Helps communities finance the construction of basic infrastructure needed to protect public health and safety and pave the way for economic growth.
Water Infrastructure Fund — Provides supplemental grants and loans to help communities build water treatment projects that address existing environmental or public health problems.
Women's Economic Security Act (WESA) Competitive Grant Program
Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) — A federal tax credit for private sector businesses as an incentive to hire workers in groups who consistently experience high rates of unemployment.
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) — WIOA provides an expanded platform from which Minnesota can continue to grow and address workforce and economic development opportunities.
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Young Adult Program for job seekers
WIOA Young Adult Program — Provides out-of-school youth between the ages of 16 and 24 and in-school youth between the ages of 14 and 21 with year-round employment and training services.
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Young Adult Program for service providers
WIOA Young Adult Program — WIOA youth services are provided by a network of 16 Workforce Development Areas, serving all 87 counties in Minnesota.
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Adult Program for service providers
Workforce One (WF1) — Web-based client management application used by state, city, county and non-profit providers to track employment and training services.
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Xcel Energy Power Up Program
Xcel Energy Power Up Program — Will provide a workforce training pipeline for a variety of energy-related construction occupations.
Workplace Safety for Youth — State and federal child labor law information, as well as other resources for keeping youth safe on the job.
Youth Support Services
Youth Support Services — A competitive grant program to provide support services for individuals.
Youthbuild Program for job seekers
Youthbuild Program — Provides specialized training for youth and young adults who are at risk of not completing or have not completed their high school education.
Youthbuild Program for service providers
Youthbuild Program — Provides specialized training for youth and young adults who are at risk of not completing or have not completed their high school education.
