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Graduation Counts!


Did you know that high school dropouts…

  • are three times as likely to be unemployed as are college graduates? Employed dropouts are usually in jobs that are low‐paying and provide little upward mobility.
  • earn approximately $9,200 less per year than high school graduates and $ 1 million less than college graduates over their career span?
  • are twice as likely to slip into poverty from one year to the next?
  • are in poorer health than are high school or college graduates (at every age range)?
  • are more likely to be dependent on government assistance at some point in their lives?
  • are eight times as likely to be incarcerated as are individuals with, at least, a high school diploma. They cost the criminal justice system more than $ 1 billion per year?
  • may experience a number of obstacles if or when they attempt to gain future, post‐secondary education, due to lack of credentials and/or inadequate skills?
  • are more likely to have children who eventually become dropouts?
  • will cost our nation more than $325 billion in lost wages, taxes lost and productivity over the course of their lifetimes? (Achieve; 2006)

 

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