Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id SAA08772; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 18:05:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 18:05:05 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <19981211230322.23423.qmail@hotmail.com> Errors-To: azaheer@famlit.org Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Antoinette Gooden" <mrsgooden@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1812] Re: Crosspost NLA INFO: Education and Incomes-Census Bureau Report X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain please stop sending me mail thanks ag >From nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Fri Dec 11 05:19:27 1998 >Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id HAA26656; > Fri, 11 Dec 1998 07:57:56 -0500 (EST) >Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 07:57:56 -0500 (EST) >Message-Id: <1298759619-149892734@[208.141.11.154]> >Errors-To: azaheer@famlit.org >Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov >Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov >Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov >Precedence: bulk >From: Akeel Zaheer <azaheer@famlit.org> >To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> >Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1811] Crosspost NLA INFO: Education and Incomes-Census Bureau Report >X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Mime-version: 1.0 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail & News for Macintosh - 3.0c (405) > >The following report from the Census Bureau contains some interesting >information on the correlation between income and education. > > > >Akeel H. Zaheer >National Center for Family Literacy >Email: azaheer@famlit.org >x----------x----------------x---------------x---------------x--------------- >--x----------------x-----------------x------------x-------- > > > Attached is some interesting new information from the Census Bureau. > > -- Alice Johnson > National Institute for Literacy > > >> EMBARGOED UNTIL: 12:01 A.M. EST, DECEMBER 10, 1998 (THURSDAY) >> >> Public Information Office CB98-221 >> 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) >> 301-457-4067 (TDD) >> e-mail: pio@census.gov >> >> Jennifer Day >> 301-457-2464 >> >> Higher Education Means More Money, >> Census Bureau Says >> >> Underscoring the significant correlation between more education and >> higher salaries, the Commerce Department's Census Bureau today reported in > >> a new study that, in 1997, adults age 18 and over with a bachelor's degree > >> earned an average of $40,478 a year, while those with only a high school >> diploma earned $22,895. >> >> Advanced degree-holders made about $63,229 a year, while those without a > >> high school diploma averaged $16,124. >> >> The report, Educational Attainment in the United States: March 1998 >> (Update), P20-513, also includes the following highlights: >> >> - About 83 percent of adults age 25 and over completed high school and >> 24 percent had a bachelor's degree or more. >> >> - The high school completion rate for young adults (age 25 to 29) was 88 > >> percent, while 27 percent earned a college degree. >> >> - For those age 25 to 29, college completion rates for young women >> exceeded those for young men at 29 percent and 26 percent, respectively. >> >> - About 84 percent of Whites age 25 and over completed high school and >> 25 percent had a bachelor's degree or more. The equivalent rates for >> African Americans were 76 percent and 15 percent. >> >> - About 90 percent of the employed civilian labor force age 25 and over >> had a high school degree. >> >> - High school completion levels for those age 25 and over were highest >> in the Midwest (86 percent) and lowest in the South (80 percent). >> >> The report is based on data from the 1998 March Current Population >> Survey. As in all surveys, the estimates are subject to sampling >> variability and other sources of error. >> >> -X- >> >> Editor's Note: The embargoed data can be accessed at >> <http://www.census.gov/dcmd/www/embargo/embargo.html>. Call the >> Public Information Office for a password. After the release time, go >> to <http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/educ-attn.html>. A >> faxed copy of the report may be obtained by calling the Public >> Information Office's 24-hour Fax-On-Demand service on >> 1-888-206-6463 and requesting document no. 1343. >> >> The U.S. Census Bureau, pre-eminent collector and disseminator of timely, >> relevant and quality data about the people and the economy of the United >> States, conducts a population and housing census every 10 years, an >> economic census every five years and more than 100 demographic and >> economic surveys every year, all of them evolving from the first census in > >> 1790. >> > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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