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Education Greatly Boosts Women's Earnings: Report

Tuesday May 17, 2005
Women who graduated from college earned about 76 percent more than women with only a high school diploma in 2004, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The educational earnings gap has widened sharply since 1979, when female college graduates earned only 43 percent more than female high school graduates. Read more...

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