# Dropouts are more likely than high school graduates to be
unemployed,
in poor health, living in
poverty, on
public assistance, and
single parents with children who drop out of high school
# Dropouts earn
$9,200 less per year than high school graduates and more than
$1 million less over a lifetime than college graduates
# Dropouts were
more than twice as likely as high school graduates to
slip into poverty in a
single year and
three times more likely than college graduates to be unemployed
# Dropouts are
more than eight times as likely to be in
jail or prison as high school graduates
# Dropouts are four times less likely to volunteer than college graduates, twice less likely to vote or participate in community projects, and represent only 3 percent of actively engaged citizens in the U.S. today