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...night school Ryan attended, dropped from a high of $15 billion in the late 1970s to $3 billion last year. Yet the stakes in the struggle to get students to graduate are higher than ever: an estimated 67% of prison inmates nationwide are high school dropouts. A 2002 Northeastern University study found that nearly half of all dropouts ages 16 to 24 were unemployed...
...dropouts as much as 8%--and taken their jobs in industries like food service and construction. Of the 4.8 million net new workers who entered the labor force from 2000 to 2005, 4.1 million were recent immigrants, says Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. "If you're young and male and a high school dropout, chances are you've been displaced by an illegal immigrant," he says. Forcing supplanted workers to find other employment, however, may encourage them to improve their skills and their earning power, says Smith. "It's not musical chairs...
...starter in the AHL All-Star game this January, and he and Lannon are a combined + 26 on the season. And the latter, an eighth-round pick in 2002, was just named the team’s 2005-2006 Man of the Year for his contributions to the northeastern Pennsylvanian community, including his “adoption” of a second-grade class...
...race’s final stretch. The Bears had been ranked fourth in the latest rowing polls, with Radcliffe ranked just 17th. The Black and White also tasted victory in its first action of the season, capturing the Rowlands Cup in Cambridge on March 24. Radcliffe defeated both Northeastern and Boston College to claim the Cup, the eighth consecutive time that the Black and White has won the prize. Radcliffe won four of the six races run on the afternoon, taking the second varsity boat and both novice eights. The varsity eight completed the 2,000-meter course...
...traded at least 500 million tons of CO2. Because the Bush Administration dropped out of Kyoto, the U.S. doesn't participate in this booming global trade. But state governments are starting to set up regional carbon markets based on caps they establish under their own authority. In December, seven Northeastern states led by New York agreed to cut power-plant emissions via cap and trade, beginning...