They are also key to the growth and well-being of our economy.
Higher education is an investment that pays off handsomely for everyone.
Best of all, it's an investment that will increasingly pay off in the years to come. Keeping Up With Inflation Family purchasing power has eroded significantly since the 1970s. It now takes two incomes to buy what one salary bought 20 years ago. The college educated, though not insulated from backsliding pay, fared much better than those with only high school diplomas. Between 1973 and 1993, family incomes of high school graduates, adjusted for inflation, fell 21.5 percent.