Study Finds High Rate of Imprisonment Among Dropouts - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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about one in every 10 young male high school dropouts is in jail or juvenile detention, compared with one in 35 young male high school graduates
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Maria Mahon on 12 Oct 09These statistics are really shocking - 1 in 10 dropouts in jail compared to 1 in 35 high school graduates.
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The report puts the collective cost to the nation over the working life of each high school dropout at $292,000.
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Again, the statistics were worse for young African-American dropouts, whose unemployment rate last year was 69 percent, compared with 54 percent for whites and 47 percent for Hispanics
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Young female dropouts were nine times more likely to have become single mothers than young women who went on to earn college degrees, the report said, citing census data for 2006 and 2007.