University of Montana report details costs of high school dropouts

The University of Montana Bureau of Business and Economic Research and its nonprofit Montana KIDS COUNT recently released a report detailing the personal, statewide and national implications of youth not graduating from high school.

According to the report, people without a high school diploma frequently end up at the lowest end of the economic spectrum, where saving and accumulating assets is hard, with only minimal chances of breaking out of poverty. For the 2009-10 statewide class, 10,349 youth earned diplomas and graduated, while 2,252 students dropped out at some point during the four years of high school.

Full Story: http://news.umt.edu/2012/10/092812kids.aspx