The Lumina Foundation for Education released the finding of their study on how each state is doing in terms of reaching the "Big Goal": 60% of U.S. population attaining a high-quality, post-secondary degree or credential by the year 2025. NH currently shows 46% of it's population as degree holders, a gap of 14%. Lumina also evaluated the job market in NH, which, as many of us know first hand, has changed significantly in the past two years and it isn't going back. Lumina's research shows that by 2018, 64% of jobs in NH will REQUIRE post-secondary education, and that equals an estimated 141,000 job openings. Will you be ready?
Another group who recently released their findings is the College Board Advocacy and Policy Center. They found that: a holder of a Bachelor's degree is poised to make $21,900 a year more on average than the earnings of a person who only completed high school; unemployment for 20-24 years in the 4th quarter of 2009 was 2.6 times higher for those without a college degree than for those with; 35% of single mothers who only graduated high school live in poverty with their children compared to 12% with a Bachelor's degree; people with college degrees volunteer more, are less likely to smoke, exercise more, read to their children more and were, overall, happier than those without a post-secondary education.
Does this study guarantee that you will be happier, healthier, richer than before? Absolutely not. But the results clearly show that, by attaining education beyond high school, a person's chances of succeeding not only professionally but personally are more likely. But, as my father likes to say "There's no such thing as a free lunch." My version is "You only get out what you put in." College takes a lot of work: time you'd rather spend with your family, money you'd rather spend on car repairs, stress you'd rather not have in your life. But here's the thing: it will pay off for you in the end. Even if it leads to small improvements that accumulate over time, those are opportunities that may not have come your way without the knowledge and discipline that a degree program will instill in you. We all want the chance to be better than we are. Get that degree!
www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/trends/ed_pays_2007.pdf
Another group who recently released their findings is the College Board Advocacy and Policy Center. They found that: a holder of a Bachelor's degree is poised to make $21,900 a year more on average than the earnings of a person who only completed high school; unemployment for 20-24 years in the 4th quarter of 2009 was 2.6 times higher for those without a college degree than for those with; 35% of single mothers who only graduated high school live in poverty with their children compared to 12% with a Bachelor's degree; people with college degrees volunteer more, are less likely to smoke, exercise more, read to their children more and were, overall, happier than those without a post-secondary education.
Does this study guarantee that you will be happier, healthier, richer than before? Absolutely not. But the results clearly show that, by attaining education beyond high school, a person's chances of succeeding not only professionally but personally are more likely. But, as my father likes to say "There's no such thing as a free lunch." My version is "You only get out what you put in." College takes a lot of work: time you'd rather spend with your family, money you'd rather spend on car repairs, stress you'd rather not have in your life. But here's the thing: it will pay off for you in the end. Even if it leads to small improvements that accumulate over time, those are opportunities that may not have come your way without the knowledge and discipline that a degree program will instill in you. We all want the chance to be better than we are. Get that degree!
www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/trends/ed_pays_2007.pdf
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