The story is built around a group of high school dropouts.

故事围绕着一群辍学的中学生展开。

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The income of high school dropouts is about two-thirds that of Americans with a high school diploma.

高中辍学人的收入是拥有高中毕业文凭的人收入的三分之二。

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In the last few months of 2009, the unemployment rate for high school dropouts grew by an astounding 8 percent to 15.5 percent.

在2009年的最后几个月，高中辍学的从业人士的失业率从8%飙升到15.5%。

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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.

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In 1960, half of the native-born men in the labor force were high school dropouts happy to do physically demanding, low-skilled work.

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