MercuryNews.com | 11/10/2005 | Education study sees crisis in workforce: "Californians' average income -- and the state's tax base -- are headed for decline in the next 15 years unless the state moves aggressively to increase the number of Latinos who attend college and earn degrees, a report concludes.

The same demographic trends are at work across the nation, as well-educated white baby boomers retire and their would-be replacements come increasingly from minority groups that lag in educational attainment, especially Latinos, according to a study released Wednesday by the National Center for Education Statistics in San Jose."