The Huffington Post uses numbers from The Brookings Institution to look at the ten cities with the lowest percentage of bachelor's degrees in the nation. Half of them are in California.
Why are California cities lacking in college graduates? Central Valley cities Stockton, Modesto, and Fresno are joined by a three-way tie between Riverside, San Bernadino and Ontario in Southern California.
The data comes from this interactive map from The Brookings Institution.
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