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Get ahead
If you go to college, you WILL benefit:
- Employment
- Income
- Knowledge
- Health
- Benefit to Society
- Statistics
- Other
Employment:
For college educated employees:
- High demand for employment
- Better working conditions
- More promotion opportunities
- Longer job tenure
- More on the job training opportunities
- Higher levels of education correspond to lower levels of unemployment
Income:
- Incomes of college graduates, especially those who have advanced degrees, have been rising faster than the incomes of those with no college education
- The more educated you are the less likely you are to live in poverty
Knowledge:
- You will be technologically savvy
- You will be more likely to use the Internet and computers
- You will be more likely to buy and read books, newspapers and magazines
- You will be more likely to have knowledge about government and be politically active
Health:
If you have a college education you:
- Will have lower disability rates
- Will be less likely to be disabled
- Will be more likely to have regular medical and dental checkups
- Will be less likely to be overweight
- Will be more likely to exercise
- Will be less likely to smoke
- Will have a better quality of life
Benefit to Society:
- You will contribute to economic growth
- Increased educational levels results in 15-20& of the annual growth in output for the United States
- Lack of education = huge costs to society
- You will be more likely to vote
- You will be more likely to do volunteer work
- You will be more likely to donate blood
Statistics:
- Over their working lives college graduates earn about 73% more than high school graduates, and those with advanced degrees earn 2 to 3 times as much as high school graduates
- In 2003, the average full time year round worker in the United States with a four year college degree earned $49,900, 62 percent more than the $30,800 earned by the average full time year round worker with only a high school diploma
- Average lifetime earnings for individuals with associate degrees are almost 25% higher than average lifetime earnings for high school graduates
- For every income group, the percentage perceiving themselves as very healthy increases with higher levels of education
- In 2000, 14% of college graduates reported smoking while 28% of high school graduates smoked
- In 1997 1.2% of high school graduates were incarcerated compared to .1% of college graduates
- According to teacher evaluations, children whose mothers are college graduates are significantly more likely to display eagerness to learn than are the children of high school graduates
- 73% of the children whose mothers are college graduates can count to 20, compared to 48% of those whose mothers are high school graduates
- Among children ages 3 to 5, 27% of those whose mothers are college graduates recognize all letters of the alphabet, compared to 17% of those whose mothers are high school graduates
- Among college graduates, the volunteer rate is 46%, over twice the 22% rate for high school graduates
- In the 2000 presidential election, 74% of U.S. citizens who were college graduates between the ages of 25 and 44 reported voting, compared to 45% of high school graduates
- In 1994, 17% of college graduates were regular blood donors, compared to 11% of high school graduates
Other:
- You will be more likely to raise healthier children with higher measures of educational achievement
- You will be more likely to attend art and cultural activities
- You are less likely to go to jail
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