Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f1138O920667; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:08:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:08:24 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <sa788bd1.023@langate.gsu.edu> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Daphne Greenberg" <alcdgg@langate.gsu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:1192] GED and women's income:NLA x-post X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.3.1 Status: O Content-Length: 1336 Lines: 7 This is an excerpt of a posting from the NLA listserv. "The study looked at women's income ten years after dropping out of high school and found that women who obtained a GED in the 3rd year after dropping out of high school had incomes that were 25 percent higher than those who did not pursue further education. Those women who both obtained a GED and attended a year of job training or college had incomes that were nearly 50 percent higher. The data showed that these increases, while large in magnitude, still led to incomes that were, on average, below poverty level for a family of two. This data collection ended in the early 90s and so the present strong economy may support higher income levels. Ninety percent of the women in the study had children and 73 percent had been married at one time. This suggests that a significant number of the women in this sample were single mothers at the ten-year mark. Even after obtaining a GED and participating in a year of job training or college, high school dropouts who are single mothers will probably find it difficult to make enough money to live above the poverty line." The full article can be found in the journal called the Monthly Labor Review. It is a study conducted by NCSALL researchers and can be found on-line at http://stats.bls.gov/opub/mlr/mlrhome.htm.
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