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Originally Posted by PlumberKhan
Jeez.
You could just borrow 10 million from your mother and start a hedge funds like the other go-getters.
Stop being a victim.
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LOL. It gets even crazier PK:
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Here's a math lesson for lawmakers and policymakers:
The United States spends an average of $9,644 a year per pre K-12 student compared with $22,600 per prison inmate. Increasing the high school completion rate by just 1 percent for all men ages 20 to 60 would save the country up to $1.4 billion per year in reduced costs from crime. Sixty-five percent of convicts are dropouts, and lack of education is one of the strongest predictors of criminal activity. A dropout has an eight times higher likelihood of being in jail or prison during his/her lifetime than a high school graduate.
Numbers like these give us a compelling economic argument for investing in programs that will help increase the graduation rate. They also give us urgency to look at how we can intervene with the population at greatest risk for dropping out--juvenile offenders.
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http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/...ervention.aspx