Since then, the percentage of young women to graduate from high school increased by two percent and appears to have led to a 14 percent decrease in the number of young women in Colorado without a high school diploma.
: According to the Census Bureau, the Colorado Family Planning Initiative’s efforts to make contraceptives more accessible decreased the proportion of Hispanic women in ColoradoThis improvement is important: Failure to graduate from high school sets individuals on a path of reduced lifetime educational attainment that has become increasingly associated with poor life chances, driving inequalities in lifetime earnings and mortality,” researchers explainedThey aren’t the first to suggest that...