Education Explanation

Education is becoming increasingly important in our world today. With technological advances in the workplace, even more training and education will be required for most jobs.

The cycle of education and poverty starts with knowing that high poverty rates have been linked to low levels of educational attainment. Likewise, low levels of formal education have been linked to low-wage earning jobs. To complete the cycle, low wages have been linked to subsistence standards of living. This cycle can be seen in countries all around the world.

Poverty rates for high school dropouts is three times higher than poverty rates among high school graduates. Poverty rates for men and women at different levels of educational attainment show a gap that narrows as people go up the educational ladder. For example, in 1994 the poverty rate in the U.S. for men 25 to 54 years of age who did not finish high school was 27% and 38 percent for women.

Did your parents graduate from high school? College? Did their parents graduate from high school? College?

Who here is planning on attending college?