High School Dropouts Make a Million Dollars Less

From: SilentEpidemic.org

High School Dropout Statistics:

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• Dropouts are more likely than high school graduates to be unemployed, in poor health, living in poverty, on public assistance, and single parents with children who drop out of high school

• Dropouts earn $9,200 less per year than high school graduates and more than $1 million less over a lifetime than college graduates

• Dropouts were more than twice as likely as high school graduates to slip into poverty in a single year and three times more likely than college graduates to be unemployed in 2004

• Dropouts are more than eight times as likely to be in jail or prison as high school graduates

• Dropouts are four times less likely to volunteer than college graduates, twice less likely to vote or participate in community projects, and represent only 3 percent of actively engaged citizens in the U.S. today

• The government would reap $45 billion in extra tax revenues and reduced costs in public health, crime, and welfare payments if the number of high school dropouts among 20-year olds in the U.S. today, which numbers more than 700,000 individuals, were cut in half

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