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It's also saying that if you're a rich kid and you drop out of high school, you're likely to be relatively poor by age 40. And the median poor kid that went to
by nostromo 10y ago
It's also saying that if you're a rich kid and you drop out of high school, you're likely to be relatively poor by age 40.
And the median poor kid that went to college and graduated is likely to be better off than you at 40.
Seems... quite good actually.
- falcolas 10y agoUntil you compare college graduates to college graduates, or dropouts to dropouts.
- shogun21 10y agoYeah, I think the author is drawing the wrong conclusions by comparing two variables. It looks like, from the graph, there's some staying power within the top 20%, but that still leaves a great amount of mobility for college graduates.