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(SOURCES: Number H.S dropouts (National Center on Education Statistics ),  Bachelor Degrees (National Center on Education Statistics), Student Loan Debt (Pew Research Center), Union Membership (US department of labor), Single Mother Households (U.S.Census),  Poverty (U.S.Census), Savings (Bureau of Economic Analysis))