July 01, 2003 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.) Working poor and education in 2001The incidence of living in poverty greatly diminishes as workers achieve higher levels of education. In 2001, only 1.5 percent of college graduates were counted among the working poor. This compared with 2.6 percent of workers with associate degrees, 4.4 percent of those with some college but no degree, 5.8 percent of high school graduates with no college, and 13.1 percent of high school dropouts.
At all educational attainment levels other than college graduate, women were more likely than men to be among the working poor. At all major educational attainment levels, blacks were more likely to be among the working poor than were whites. Related Articles: Happy 10th Birthday, TED!The very first issue of The Editor's Desk (TED) was posted on September 28, 1998. TED was the first online-only publication of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For 10 years, BLS has been committed to posting a new TED article each business day, for a total of over 2,400 articles so far. |
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