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Government data suggest that education is increasingly crucial in protecting workers from unemployment.

The difference in joblessness between the country’s least educated people and most educated people increased during the recession, according to statistics from the Labor Department. People without a high school diploma remain more than three times as likely to be unemployed than are college graduates.

The increases in the unemployment rate, from December 2007 through August:

• 7.8 percent to 14 percent for people who did not graduate from high school
•  4.7 percent to 10.3 percent for those with just a high school diploma
•  3.9 percent to 8.7 percent for people with some college
•  2.1 percent to 4.6 percent for those with bachelor’s or more advanced degrees

(from the Associated Press as quoted in Huff Post on 05/11/11)

If you are in-school, you may wish to work hard and complete that program.

If you have dropped out of school, and you can return, you may wish to do so and do so as soon as possible.

If you have been expelled or suspended, do what you have to do to rehabilitate yourself and get back in school — if not into the school you attended most recently, try to get into school somewhere else and do exemplary work.

Andrew J. Billups, PsyD

drbillups@chesapeakecoaching.com