Y.E.S! Youth Education Security
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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...
- 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