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It estimates income losses relative to high school graduates and discusses common reasons for dropout. 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If a person has not completed grade school, the loss is estimated at $121,000 versus high school graduates.","Answer",{"name":116,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":117},"What challenges do school dropouts face in employment?",{"text":118,"@type":114},"The document notes dropouts usually lack basic skills required for modern jobs, making them last to be hired and first to be laid off. It also says they are more vulnerable to job loss due to technological changes.",{"name":120,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":121},"How do taxes and inflation affect purchasing power from 1939 to 1964?",{"text":122,"@type":114},"It explains that maintaining the same purchasing power requires substantially higher nominal income in 1964. Using a couple example, it shows federal income and social security taxes and inflation deductions reduce the real purchasing power despite income increases.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":125,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":127,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":129,"site_id":62},321650,1790122684,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":132},{"doc_id":129,"user_id":133,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":134,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":135,"file_id":136,"file_url":137,"file_type":138,"file_size":139,"view_count":105,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":19,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":144,"read_time":52,"preview_page_count":4},8796095360427,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_994ba38a5ba835b3df7d355c54d3ed8d","# SCHOOL DROPOUT\n\nMan who laves high school before graduation will earn an average of$38,000 less during his working lifetime than high school graduate.Ifhe has not completed grade school he will make $121,000 less thanhigh school graduate.  \nSince school dropout usually lacks basic skills required for modern jobs,he is last to be hired,first to be laid off,and is most subject to jobloss through technological changes.Among male dropouts,the rateof unemployment is 3 times higher than among high school graduates.Those that are employed are concentrated in job areas which requireleast skill-the type of employment opportunity that is fast disappear-ing from the American economy.  \nGreatest percentage of school withdrawas occurs at age when schoolattendance is no longer compulsory-16 in most states-ninth and tenthgrades and ages 16 and 17 have highest attrition rates.Reasons fordropping out of school include:disinterest in school,home responsi-bilities,unfavorable parental attitude,social pressure-for example,compulsion to ean money to buy cars or clothes,and unhappy homesituations.Recent studies,however,tend to explode as myths thatdropouts are usually delinquents,are usually the product of brokenhomes or that lack of intelligence is a dominant cause.  \nAbout 3 million young people will enter the labor force annually be-tween 1965 and 1970 and education will be more needed than ever.Fastest growing opportunities will be in technical and professionaljobs requiring 16 or more years of education.Second fastest growingwill be technician and semiprofessional jobs requiring 1 to 3 years ofeducation beyond high school.  \n# INCOME,TAXES AND PURCHASING POWER\n\nTo maintain the same purchasing power,a man who earned $3,000 to  \n$5,000 in 1939 would now have to earn two and one-half times as much.  \nA married couple with two children having $3,000 income in 1939 paid$30 Federal income and social security taxes leaving $2,970 incomeafter taxes.To obtain the same purchasing power in 1964,this couplewould need to have income of $7,431-$823 goes for Federal incometaxes,$3,638 has been lost through inflation leaving $2,970 in pur-chasing power.  \nMAY 1964  \n# EDUCATION HAS ADOLLAR-AND-CENTS VALUE\n\nMOM SCNOOL 0ROPOU?  ON SCMOOL GRADUATEw Depormest of oa buolen ond Wolon  \nI964 INCOME NECESSARY TO  \nFINANCE FACTS  \nMAY 1964  \n# SELECTED COMPONENTSOF PERSONAL INCOME\n\nCONSUMER INSTALMENT CREDITEXTENDED AND REPAIDMONTHLY,SEASONALLY ADJUSTEDSoww odoral Roerw ed  \nThe married couple with two children having $5,000 income in 1939would need $12,743 income in 1964 to maintain the same purchasingpower.Federal income and social security taxes take $1,749 in 1964compared to $59 in 1939,and $6,053 must be deducted from 1964income to take account of inflation.  \n# PERSONAL INCOME\n\nPersonal income rose $1.6 billion in March to a seasonally adjustedannual rate of $480.4 billion.March increase was somewhat less thanthe average monthly rise that has taken place since last summer.  \nHalf of the March rise was in payrolls,which edged upward in themanufacturing and service industries as well as in State and localgovernments.The rest of last month’s personal income increase re-flected minor gains in all other types of income except rent.  \nWith the tax cut becoming effective early in March,there was a sharprise in after-tax personal income available for spending and saving.Tentative estimates put the increase in consumer buying power dueto the tax cut at about $7 billion,at annual rates.  \n# CONSUMER CREDIT\n\n0  \nConsumer instalment credit rose $579 million in February,on a season-ally adjusted basis,compared with increases of $428 million in theprevious month and $495 million in February 1963.  \nNew credit extensions in February amounted to $5,421 million,season-ally adjusted,$145 million more than in January.This rise mirroredsizeable gains in credit sales of automobiles and other consumer dur-able goods.Repayments on instalment credit contracts at $4,842 mil-lion after","cbCainalJFSoT7Wm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainalJFSoT7Wm","pdf",1345739,"English","# SCHOOL DROPOUT\n# INCOME,TAXES AND PURCHASING POWER\n# EDUCATION HAS A DOLLAR-AND-CENTS VALUE\n# SELECTED COMPONENTS OF PERSONAL INCOME\n# PERSONAL INCOME\n# CONSUMER CREDIT\n# BUSINESS ACTIVITY","[{\"question\":\"How does dropping out of high school affect lifetime earnings?\",\"answer\":\"It states that leaving high school before graduation leads to an average loss of about $38,000 over a working lifetime versus high school graduates. 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