out on economic losses due to high school dropouts. The report states that 20% of the adult workforce in California are dropouts which is around 4 million adults and includes people with a GED.
This article gets detailed by looking at people aged 20 in 2005. 554,098 people fit this age group. 130,681 persons will have high school as their highest level of eduction. 156,817 persons will have some college classes under their belt. 148,105 persons will have some level of college degree and the 118,496 left that will be dropouts.
61% of the 118,496 are Hispanic.
Over their lifetimes these people will cost the state 46.4 billion in lost earnings. That same group also winds up with 3.1 billion in lost state and local tax revenue, 3.5 billion in health care, 2.5 billion in crime, and 400 million in welfare.