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Black Men Who Dropped Out of High School Have Very High Risk of Going to Prison: Study

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A jaw-dropping number of African-American men who do not complete high school risk ending up in prison.
According to a new report from the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project, black male dropouts born in 1975 have a 70 percent chance of ending up in prison.
That percentage is more than three times lower for white male dropouts.
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