Are Americans keeping pace with the increased educational skill and requirements of this age of advanced technology? Current data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that the unemployment rate of Americans with a bachelor’s degree or higher is 4.6 percent versus 10.3 percent for those with only a high school diploma and 14 percent for high school dropouts. Yet the brutal truth is that in the past 20 years the United States has slipped from first place to ninth in international rankings of the percentage of adults who graduate from a post-secondary college or technical program.
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