Summit County Labor News

11th grade adds $238 in annual income; the 12th grade adds $466. The typical high school graduate during his adult earning years will receive $49,000 more than the eighth grade graduate and $30,000 more than the high school dropout.

Recently, the Institution of Life Insurance reported that a man with a grade school education can expect a lifetime income of $178,000; the average high school graduate can expect to earn $243,000; and a college degree raises the average total to $347,000. Still other sources place the expected earnings in these three categories slightly higher.

The Department of Labor today points to the 26 million new young workers who will join the labor force in the 1960's. Of these, 70 per cent will have a high school education or better. The dilemma: what to do about the 30 per cent, or 7½ million, of our new young workers who will not have completed their high school education, and what to do about the 2½ million who will have completed only the eighth grade or less.

The organizations cooperating in the National Stay-in-School Campaign have issued a Handbook for Communities. Simply, it tells what you can do if you are a school official, student, editor, labor union official, employment counselor, PTA member, civic club member, businessman, social worker, or member of a church group. The appeal to the Nation's boys and girls of high school age to stay in school and graduate is most effective when it is made by members of their own communities by those whom they know and respect.