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America faces an opportunity crisis. The ability to earn a good life depends heavily on a person’s skills and educational attainment. Nearly two in three jobs now require some form of postsecondary education. Driving this crisis is the fact that our postsecondary education and training system doesn’t do enough to help people earn high-quality credentials quickly—both today and throughout a worker’s career. This report offers 30 federal and state policy ideas to help people overcome barriers to obtaining postsecondary credentials.