Education increases the yearly wages of employed ex-offenders by $564. The Washington Post via Getty Images November 20, 2023 Education linked to better employment prospects upon release from prison Ben Stickle, Middle Tennessee State University and Steven Sprick Schuster, Middle Tennessee State University People who get an education while serving time are less likely to return to prison and more likely to enter the job market, an analysis finds.
Chibok schoolgirls freed from Boko Haram captivity shown in Abuja, Nigeria in 2017. Olamikan Gbemiga/AP March 7, 2019 Once captives of Boko Haram, these students are finding new meaning in their lives in Pennsylvania Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, Dickinson College Four young women who escaped Boko Haram during the 2014 Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping are now studying in the US. Their professor recounts a recent breakthrough in their quest to go to college.
Staying in school improves your chances of a healthy future. sheff/shutterstock September 27, 2018 The data is in: Americans who don’t finish high school are less healthy than the rest of the US Shanta R. Dube, Georgia State University New data underscore that adults with no high school diploma or GED are at the greatest risk for the leading causes of disease and death.