Cutting the dropout rate of the Washington area’s class of 2010 would increase their earnings by $153 million in an average year, according to a new analysis. And if just half of the 17,800 dropouts graduated instead, they would support the growth of 750 additional jobs and could increase the metro area’s gross regional product by $191 million by their careers’ midpoints.

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