While mayor of Portland, Oregon, Sam Adams was known for his advocacy in the areas of civil rights protections, sustainable city planning, and arts education. In addition to these issues, Sam Adams also focused on ways to reduce Portland’s high school dropout rates.
One way to fight poverty and crime is to reduce the high school dropout rate. An average high school dropout earns just $20,241 annually, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That is 30 percent less than a high school graduate and less than half of what someone with a bachelor’s degree earns. Unsurprisingly, dropouts have about a 30.8 percent poverty rate, which is more than double the poverty rate of those with a bachelor’s degree. Compared with college graduates, high school dropouts are 63 times more likely to be incarcerated, according to a study by researchers at Northeastern University. The data shows that the drop outs struggle to escape the socio-economic forces that lead to crime.
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