But those jobs will not, for the most part, be open to high school dropouts.
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Today, less than 10% of the native-born men in the labor force are high school dropouts.
In 1960, half of the native-born men in the labor force were high school dropouts happy to do physically demanding, low-skilled work.
According to a 2006 study (PDF), 22% of high school dropouts in the United States leave school to care for a family member.
Brains matter even in the downbeat world of high school dropouts.
Fifty of these self-made tycoons are college or high school dropouts.
The most recent available data show that in 2011 only 14% of Hispanic 16- to 24-year-olds were high school dropouts, half the level in 2000 (28%).
One is a skills mismatch: there are plenty of job openings in health care, and plenty of people looking for work who are high school dropouts.
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While many high school dropouts join the ranks of low-wage workers or the unemployed, American employers estimate 3 million skilled jobs are available right now.
Some 25% of men aged 25-54 with no college degree, 35% of high-school dropouts and almost 70% of black high-school dropouts are not working (see article).
Now we must work together to increase accountability, add flexibility for States and districts, reduce the number of high school dropouts, and provide extra help for struggling schools.
As Alma mentioned, high school dropouts are more likely to be teen parents, more likely to commit crime, more likely to rely on public assistance, more likely to lead shattered lives.
These figures are a matter of concern because high school dropouts have lower earnings, experience more unemployment, and are more likely to end up needing public support, going to prison, and becoming pregnant than their peers who have a diploma.
And it requires replicating innovative ideas that make class feel engaging and relevant -- because most high school dropouts in a recent study said the reason they dropped out was that they weren't interested in class and they weren't motivated to do their work.
Thiel is in effect, also encouraging college or even high-school dropouts with the under-20 requirement.
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The business heroes in his history are mostly immigrants or high-school dropouts and often both.
The poverty rate among high-school dropouts is 12 times the rate for college graduates.
Another five are high school or grade school dropouts, proving that street smarts can often trump book smarts.
His first stop of the day was the public library, where someone had assembled an audience of about thirty high-school dropouts.
We may be high-school dropouts or holders of advanced degrees.
And, according to a report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the lifetime income of high-school dropouts is directly associated with their scores on a battery of intelligence tests.
For instance, commonly accepted numbers show that the turnout rate among black male high-school dropouts age 20 to 34 surged between 1980 and 2008, to the point where about one in three were voting in presidential races.
High-school dropouts are disproportionately black or Hispanic.
Because of these problems, a significant proportion of children and youths are not attending school and there is a high rate of school dropouts.
That, Klein emphasized, is the basic difference between the easier job opportunities for dropouts in an age when a high school degree was not necessary for a starting position.
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For decades, the GED test has been synonymous with a second chance for dropouts and adult students to earn a high-school diploma.
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