| • A high school dropout earns about $260,000 less over a lifetime and pays about $60,000 less in taxes than a high school graduate;
• America loses $192 billion in combined income and tax revenue for each cohort of students who never complete high school;
• Increasing the high school completion rate by just 1 percent for all men ages 20-60 would save the U.S. up to $1.4 billion per year in reduced costs from crime;
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