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May 5, 2008

America's Dropout Crisis: What this means to the future of America?

“Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.” —Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) Marc H. Morial I participated in a conference organized by General Colin Powell in Washington, D.C., in April and learned that every 26 seconds one American high school student drops out of school—that’s over 3,000 youth per day; nearly 10,000 youth each month; or 1.1 million young people a year. And unfortunately, the crisis has hit minority communities particularly hard.

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Waiting WLC's insightful advice on what we should do.
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I'm sure you can find a way to blame white people for this, get to it. In the meantime we can get rid of all the illegal immigrants and start putting these ambitious youths to work in the service industry.
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