"Report Finds Fewer Jobs for High School Dropouts"

- Rudimentary jobs are being made obsolete by technology.
- The higher the role technology plays in jobs, the less likely a high school dropout will get a job.
- New York lost 62,000 blue-collar jobs, which amounts to one of every seven jobs in 1979.
- High school dropouts fill 31 percent of the blue-collar jobs.
- New York's dropout rate is 36.2%.
- The percentage of dropouts that have information-based jobs is 9%.
- The number of potential young workers is decreasing.
- The number of 20-year-olds will decline by 20 percent nationwide in the next 12 years.
- New York City's economy in the year 2000 will not be able to afford the dropout rate it has sustained so far because of the declining number of young people.
- Potential workers have to not only have a diploma, but they must be willing to work and learn futher.