It is
a Road to Nowhere!
Consider these facts:
- High School dropouts are 72% more likely to be
unemployed.
- High School dropouts earn 27% less than a high
school graduate.
- High School dropouts end up working 50+ hours
per week to equal a high school graduates pay.
- In the year 2002 women with less than a high school
diploma earned $323 per week compared to women that
did earn their high school diploma of $430 per week
or 25% more.
- In the year 2002 men with less than a high school
diploma earned $421 per week compared to men that
did earn their high school diploma of $620 per week
or 32% more.
- In 1979 men with less than a high school diploma
earned an average of $578 per week. In 2002 these
same men are significantly paid less down to an
average of $421 per week.
- Between 1979 and 2002 women with less than a high
school diploma average wages declined 7.2%.
- To illustrate the above figures in a different
light consider this example: Two men, one a high
school graduate and the other a non high school
graduate, work for 40 years based on 2002 wages
only. The high school graduate will make $414,000.00
more during this time than the non high
school graduate even if the non high school graduate
never experienced the potential chronic unemployment
problem.
- The unemployment rate for workers who dropped
out of high school is nearly 4 times the rate for
college graduates!
- Did you know that high school graduates are more
likely to go onto college today than in the past.
63% of the year 2000 high school graduates had enrolled
in college by the following fall, up from 52% of
the class of 1970.
We concede that some people do drop out of high school
and are very successful - but do you think you can
beat the odds? The trends that are set during the
high school age years are not for the first few years
out of school - this is a trend that will stick with
you FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
Still considering not completing high school? THINK
AGAIN.
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2003/oct/wk3/art04.htm
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