In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.
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Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.
By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.
There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.
If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education.
Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.
One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.
Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher chances of incarceration and unemployment.
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.