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High School Dropout Impact Analysis by Luis Alberto Ferreira Carmelé is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Every school day, almost 7,000 students drop out of high school. This adds up to about 1.2 million students annually who do not graduate with their peers. High school dropouts are far more likely to experience unemployment, require government assistance, and cycle through the prison system. If the U.S. could graduate all students rather than the current 70%, the economic benefit would be over $329 billion from the increased lifetime incomes of the class of 2007 alone. Graduation rates are lowest among Hispa

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Luis Alberto Ferreira Carmelé

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EN