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Report Details Societal Effects of High School Dropout Rates – Including Incarceration

Loaded on June 15, 2010 by David Reutter published in Prison Legal News June, 2010, page 24
Filed under: Crime, Statistics/Trends, Juveniles, Education (Juveniles). Location: United States of America.
by David M. Reutter

“Dropping out of high school [is] an apprenticeship for prison,” said Illinois State Senator Emil Jones at a 2006 Chicago conference on high school dropouts. An October 2009 report issued by Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies demonstrates the truth of that statement and the …

 

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