The Cost

Each year, over 10,000 teenagers leave high school without graduating (one state).

The annual incarceration cost of 5,000 teenagers is projected at $ 1.0 billion per state ($ 200,000 per person cost).

Annual Objectives Per State.

- Fund 10,000 GED high school graduations.

- Fund 10,00 job training programs.

- Fund foster care programs.

- Fund mentor - mentee programs, clubs or church services.

- Reduce recidivism by 25% annually.

1. Objective: Amend Law 117-169 (Tax Credit Funding.

- 75 % of crimes are committed by high school dropouts.

- Eight times more likely to be arrested than H.S. graduates.

- 82% of inmates have not completed high school.

- The average cost to arrest, convict and hold is $200,000 per person.

- Fund 10,000 GED graduations per state annually.

- $ 1.0 billion cost (5,000 students at $ 200,000 cost each).

- Invest in students to reduce crime in the future.