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1. CORRELATION BETWEEN POVERTY AND LACK OF EDUCATION IN THE U.S.
2. CORRELATION BETWEEN POVERTY AND LACK OF EDUCATION ELSEWHERE
1. Correlation between poverty and lack of education in the U.S.
Here’s a graph showing the correlation between poverty and lack of education in the 50 states of the U.S.:
poverty and education
Poor people apparently have lower college completion rates, which confirms prior intuition: poor families may not be able to pay the cost of education, or other burdens of poverty such as bad health may make it difficult to complete college.
It’s a vicious circle: poverty makes it harder to get an education, and lack of a good education makes it more likely that you are poor. Unsurprisingly, average income is substantially different for people of different education levels, with high average incomes practically a prerogative for the better educated: