Posted on 08/15/2006 8:37:58 PM PDT by an educated man
These days, it seems, you need a college degree just to live in or around New York City.
Almost 5 million people over the age of 25 in the New York metropolitan area — more than a third of the region’s population — had at least a bachelor’s degree in 2005, according to the latest data from the Census Bureau. In Manhattan, nearly three out of five residents were college graduates and one out of four had advanced degrees, forming one of the highest concentrations of highly educated people in any American city.
The degree-holders are rapidly displacing the dropouts, a trend that may help reduce the demand for social services and drive down crime rates. But the trend also worries some sociologists who say it is evidence that lower-income residents are being pushed out.
Between 2000 and 2005, the number of people in the metropolitan area over 25 who had not finished high school declined by 520,000, a drop of almost 20 percent. During the same period, the number of college graduates in the region rose by almost 700,000.
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We have to counter this misperception...
and illegal aliens.
You have to be dumb to live in NYC
(snort!)
Yeah, you're educated...
How does a degree make you a smarter person? When Masters in Music are lining up at the unemployment line?
You have to be dumb to say something like that.
I'm not saying it does, but we need to respond to this kind of perception anyway.
...can't believe people are taking this troll post seriously...
No we don't. Most of these graduates couldn't figure out the butterfly ballot. Hellen Keller, on the other hand, could.
these people are full of it
they are the most provincial people on Earth
Is Phoenix University actually in Phoenix, or just called that?
I thought it was a pro-no child left behind, Liberal idiots vanish post. Shows what I no.
IBTZ!!!!????
you are ridiculous. good night.
Troll?
New York City is the greatest city in the world.
That's why those Muslims chose to attack the WTC.
Central Park, Brooklyn Bridge, the place where Dillon lived, Coney Island and Times Square,
New York City, whish I was there.
It's located somewhere on the ethernet. You can buy a degree as long as you have a yahoo account. I have two PhD's and am completing my AS in Court Reporting.
Don't follow you, please clarify...
concrete jungle. rude people. cabbies that hardly speak any language. crowded.
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