Political Quotes

“Every day in America 3,000 children drop out of high school; that is 500,000 a year. This is something about which this country should be embarrassed. Each child who drops out of high school is less than they could be. It also complicates societal matters by increasing the cost of welfare and the criminal justice system. It even complicates increasing costs in our educational system. If you look at the people in prison, 82 percent of the people in prison are high school dropouts. I repeat, 82 percent of the people in our prisons are high school dropouts. That should say it all. We need to be concerned about high school dropouts. We know statistically without any question that the children of dropouts have a much higher dropout rate than those who finish high school. The median income of college graduates is more than three times that of high school dropouts. The probability of falling into poverty is three times higher for high school dropouts than those who had finished high school.”