Median Annual Earnings of Young Workers with High School Diploma

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Median Annual Earnings of Young Workers with High
School Diploma 1975-2005 (2004 dollars)
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23,836

• Median Annual Earnings for African Americans
• (25-34 Yrs Old)

3
31,548

• Median Annual Earnings for Whites
• (25-34 Yrs Old)

4
35,653

• Median Annual Earnings for Asian Americans
• (25-34 Yrs Old)

5
34

• How much less young men without high school
  diplomas earn today compared to 1975

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11

• How much less women without high school diplomas
  earn today compared to 1975

7
29

• How much less men with high school diplomas earn
  today compared to 1975

8
8

• How much less women with high school diplomas
  earn today compared to 1975

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43,416

• Typical earnings for all men age 25-34 in 1975

35,100

• Typical earnings for all men age 25-34 in 2005

10
29,184
30,300

• Typical earnings for all women age 25-34 in 2005

• Typical earnings for all women age 25-34 in 1975

11
1.1 Million

• Number of Incarcerated Men Age 18-34

12
Doubled

• The incarceration for young people 20 to 24 in
  the last decade
• (from 652 to 1,173 per 100,000)

13
17
8

• unemployment rate of
• young black men
• age 20-24

• unemployment rate of
• young white men
• age 20-24

14
14
6

• unemployment rate of
• young black women
• age 20-24

• unemployment rate of
• young white women
• age 20-24

15
1 in 9
1 in 26

• African American men age 25 to 29
• are in prison

• Latino men
• age 25 to 29
• are in prison

1 in 59
White men age 25 to 29 are in prison
16
18 Million

• Number of Uninsured Young People
• (18-34 yrs old)

17
34
52

• of young
• African Americans
• are uninsured

• of young
• Latinos
• are uninsured

23
of young Whites are uninsured
18
2 out 3

• Students Borrow to Pay for College

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8,226
14,671

• typical student debt in 2004

• typical student debt
• in 1993

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1 out 5

• Borrowers Drop Out of College with Debt
• but No Degree

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2,873
4,358

• average credit card debt 25-34 year olds in 2004

• average credit card debt 25-34 year olds in 1989

22
45

• Percent of low and middle income young people
  with credit card debt who used their credit cards
  to pay for basic living expenses

23
16
25

• amount of every dollar spent on debt payments by
  young people
• in 1989

• amount of every dollar spent on debt payments by
  young people
• in 2004

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2,192
5,836

• average credit card debt 25-34 year olds in 2004

• average tuition at public 4-year college
• In 1977

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166

• increase in cost of tuition at public 4-year
  colleges since 1977
• (from 2,192 to 5,836)

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28

• percent of young people with bachelors degrees

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43

• of young people spend more than 30 of their
  income on rent

18
did in 1970
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55

• of mothers with children under age 1
• in paid labor force today

31
In paid labor force in 1976
29
ZERO

• days of paid maternity leave guaranteed
• by federal law

30
4,388 to 14,647

• cost of full-time child care for an infant