For Parents

With a college degree, your child will earn between 20 and 40 percent more money over their lifetime than people who do not attend college. College graduates are more likely to be continuously employed and less likely to be laid off.

Also, studies show that college graduates are more likely to:

• Have interesting, meaningful work and the freedom to make decisions.
• Have better health and greater job satisfaction.
• Make better decisions about how they spend and save money.
• Speak in public more effectively, reason more abstractly, and solve problems more effectively.
• Be more tolerant of others and open to new ideas.
• Be more politically active, volunteer in community groups, and attain leadership positions in their community and workplace.

In other words, college graduates have what all parents want for their children: a bright future.

Note: Earnings for year-round full-time workers 25 years of age and over; unemployment rates for those 25 years of age and over.

Source: Bureau of the Census and Bureau of labor Statistics

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