Y.E.S!
Youth Education Security
Youth Education Security (Y.E.S!) is working to reverse the
abysmal dropout rates in our community by providing
low-income students with financial incentives for
attendance, grades and good behavior.  
  • Low-income students are 2-
    4 times more likely to
    dropout of high school.  

  • High school graduates
    earn, on average, $9,245
    more per year than non-
    graduates.

  • Nationally, the estimated
    tax revenues lost from every
    male between the age of
    25 and 34 who dropped out
    of high school is $944
    billion.  The cost increases
    to the public in the form of
    welfare and crime is
    approximately $24 billion.
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Y.E.S! Launches "First Job" program at Desert
View High School!
TUCSON— 28 students at Desert View High School
have a new incentive to stay in school:  challenge
grants!  Youth Education Security (Y.E.S!) is the first
organization in the United States to offer monetary
incentives to deeply impoverished students to stay in
school.  The “First Job” program provides students the
opportunity to have their efforts to stay in school
financially rewarded.  Read more...
Youth Education Security
P.O. Box 30503 * Tucson, AZ  85751*(520) 909-0966
Laurac@youtheducationsecurity.org

  • A 1% increase in national
    high school graduation
    rates would result in a
    savings of $1.4 billion in
    incarceration costs alone.

  • For the more than 20,000
    Arizona teens who
    dropped out of the class of
    2006, Arizona's economy
    will see $5.3 billion less in
    wages over these students'
    lifetime.
Already a success in the United Kingdom, the "First Job"
program can and will help re-engage students most at-
risk to stay in school.  Learn about the UK's EMA program
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