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Untapped Potential:
Early Labor Market Outcomes of Dropouts and Graduates from Philadelphia's Public Schools
Recent graduates from Philadelphia’s public high schools had higher employment rates and higher annual earnings than their classmates who dropped out of school, but many of these working graduates still did not earn an annual income above the federal poverty line, according to a study released today (Friday) by the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University. This is a reminder, the report suggests, that although it is essential to increase the city’s high school graduation rate, “without additional postsecondary education, the effect of a high school diploma on lives and livelihoods may be rather limited.”
Untapped Potential: Early Labor Market Outcomes of Dropouts and Graduates from Philadelphia’s Public Schools, authored by Johns Hopkins’ researchers Ruth Curran Neild and Christopher Boccanfuso, looks at employment and earnings in Pennsylvania’s formal economy for students in Philadelphia’s Classes of 2000-2005.
Download the full report here.
For additional reference tables not in the report, select from the links below...
- Education & Free/Reduced Price Lunch
- Literacy & Employment
- Employer Number & Size
- Race & Gender
- Race, Gender, & Education
- Last Grade Attended & Employment
