For those with a high school diploma but no college degree, only 55% had jobs before the recession.
Donnelley wasn't terribly hospitable to a city kid with a high school diploma.
Among those with a high school diploma or less, 14% said it was low pay, followed by annoying coworkers.
That is not decreasing, that is actually increasing -- the gap between higher education and somebody with a high school education.
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For those with a high school diploma or less, low pay ranked as the top stressor (18%), followed by annoying coworkers (14%).
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Nearly two-thirds of American adults with college degrees (64%) are married, compared with just 47% among those with a high school education.
Of course, the education race doesn't end with a high school diploma.
D. recipients who went to college earned a degree, compared to 65% of students who went on to college with a high school diploma.
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Fifty-five percent of the Chinese stopped school with a high-school education or less, while in the United States 46% stopped with a high-school education or less.
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He watched his own grandmother, a woman with a high school education, work her way up to become a Vice President at a little community bank.
Among adult profile owners with a high school degree or less, 64% have a profile on MySpace, 63% have a profile on Facebook and just 3% have a LinkedIn profile.
She got her start with a high school punk band then graduated to partner with the loose collective of Canadian musicians known as Broken Social Scene and most unexpectedly, the electro-rock rapper, Peaches.
At schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools, the City University of New York, and IBM, students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering.
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Now at schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools and City University of New York and IBM, students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate's degree in computers or engineering.
Among adults aged 25-29, the proportion with five years of primary education went from 98.8 percent to 99.2 percent during the period from 1990 to 1997, and the proportion of those with a high school diploma rose from 86 to 87 percent.
My research based on 5 million American workers in 240 metropolitan areas over 20 years shows that increases in college-educated workers in an area result in better jobs and significantly higher wages, especially for workers with a high school education or less.
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Over a third of African American students do not graduate from high school on time with a regular high school diploma, and only four percent of African American high school graduates interested in college are college-ready across a range of subjects.
With the average earnings of college graduates at a level that is twice as high as that of workers with only a high school diploma, higher education is now the clearest pathway into the middle class.
Consider these facts: A minority student is four times more likely than a non-minority student to attend a high school with very low graduation rates (so-called "dropout factories") and three times less likely to attend a high school with very high graduation rates.
According to a New York Times report from findings from one consumer group, auto insurance rates were 68% lower for a married woman with a college degree, a professional job and who owned a home, when compared to a single woman, with a high-school diploma who rented her home in a moderate income area.
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And here is what we know: Over the course of a lifetime, those with a college degree -- and I want the young people here especially to listen to this -- over the course of a lifetime, those with a college degree earn over 60 percent more than those with only a high school diploma -- 60 percent more.
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The median earnings of those with a high-school diploma or less have declined over the past 25 years, while those with college and graduate degrees have seen a sharp increase.
Swallows, who says she was going off to look for a job, took the children to stay with Lawrence, a high school friend who was living with Chouquer.
There is now a seat for virtually anyone with a high-school diploma who wants to attend college.
You can get these jobs with just a high school degree, in some case, not even high school degrees.
An even greater number of African American males do not graduate with a regular high school diploma, and African American males also experience disparate rates of incarceration.
In one case, as the report indicates, education majors working in the service sector, the earnings are less than the average for those with just a high school diploma.
Meanwhile, the trades, where jobs are stable, lucrative and impossible to outsource, are ignored by talented pupils and scream for competent employees, while Dilbertians with only a high school education keep sliding economically.
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Now at schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools and City University of New York and IBM, students will graduate with a high-school diploma and an associate's degree in computers or engineering.
With only a high school and trade school education, he parlayed a pair of early inventions into seed money for a company based upon a single idea:that amorphous and disordered materials could be better and cheaper than structured, crystalline ones to create and store energy and information.
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