{"id":342,"date":"2011-08-30T13:24:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T17:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.vcu.edu\/vcusochealth\/2011\/08\/30\/a-college-degree-is-key-to-eco\/"},"modified":"2011-08-30T13:24:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T17:24:39","slug":"a-college-degree-is-key-to-eco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/a-college-degree-is-key-to-eco\/","title":{"rendered":"A College Degree is Key to Economic Opportunity (Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, August 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><font>In a recent <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www9.georgetown.edu\/grad%20\/gppi\/hpi\/cew\/pdfs\/collegepayoff-complete.pdf\"><font>report<\/font><\/a><font> using 2007-2009 American Community survey data, researchers from Georgetown University have replicated a previous Census study on lifetime earnings.&nbsp; They found that&nbsp;individuals with a Bachelor&#8217;s degree earn&nbsp;84% more over a lifetime than those with only a high school diploma, up from 75% in 1999.&nbsp; Today, Bachelor&#8217;s degree holders can expect median lifetime earnings approaching $2.3 million. By comparison, workers with just a high school diploma average roughly $1.3 million. Other key findings:<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><font>Earnings vary greatly depending on the degree type, age, gender, race\/ethnicity, and occupation of an individual.&nbsp;Women earn less at all degree levels, even when they work as much as men. On average, women who work full-time, full-year earn 25% less than men, even at similar education levels.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><font>African Americans and Latinos earn less than Whites.&nbsp; African Americans and Latinos with Master&#8217;s degrees have lifetime earnings lower than Whites with Bachelor&#8217;s degrees.<br \/><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><font>Occupation&nbsp;also matters when it comes to earnings.&nbsp;There is a wide variation in earnings by occupation even among people with the same degree. <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span><font>Related information on&nbsp;<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.societaldistress.org\/Content.aspx?ID=163\"><font>income<\/font><\/a><font> by education can be found on our website.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font>&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent report using 2007-2009 American Community survey data, researchers from Georgetown University have replicated a previous Census study on lifetime earnings.  They found that individuals with a Bachelor&#8217;s degree 84% more over a lifetime than those with only a high school diploma, up from 75% in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[45,103,117],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-income","tag-educational-attainment","tag-income-2","tag-lifetime-earnings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}