Policy Insights | Building Capacity for Tracking Human Capital Development and Its Mobility Across State Lines

This brief discusses the pilot phase of the Multistate Longitudinal Data Exchange (MLDE) – including the process of developing governance structures and cross-state agreements, the importance and feasibility of complying with privacy laws, and some policy-relevant results from the cohort of almost 193,000 high school graduates and first-time college students that were encompassed by the educational and workforce data exchange.