Dropout statistics
at a
Glance
Adults who don't finish high
school in
the U.S. earn 65 percent of what people who have high school
degrees
make,
according to a new report comparing industrialized nations.
No other
country
had such a severe income gap.
The new report says 44
percent of
adults without high school degrees in the United States have
low
incomes - that
is, they make half of the country's median income or less.
Only Denmark had a higher
proportion of
dropouts with low incomes.
Adult education and job
training do
little to close gaps.
Those with poor initial
qualifications
remain disadvantaged throughout their life, because they
have fewer
opportunities to catch up later on.
Among adults age 25 to 34,
the U.S.
ranks 11th among nations in the share of its population that
has
finished high
school.
It used to be first.
The Short Version
How the US treats people according to their education.
The bar graph below indicates
salaries based on education and training.
(Worse than any other nation
in the
world besides Denmark)
