Decade+Statistics

= The 1980s =


 * U.S. Population in 1980:226 546,000[[image:the1980s.jpg width="266" height="274" align="right"]]
 * National Debt (1980): $914,000,000,000
 * National Debt (1986): $2,000,000,000,000
 * Average Salary: $15, 757
 * Life Expectancy: 69.9 (Male), 77.6 (Female)
 * Minimum Wage: $3.10
 * The number of poor school age children increased by almost 6 percent to 7.6 million. Rates for Hispanic and Asain children in this category were growing most quickly.
 * The school age population declined in the 1980s but became more diverse.
 * The number of children living in immigrant households rose by 24 percent.
 * White children composed a third of the urban school age poverty population but over two-thirds of the rural poverty population.
 * Minorities made up almost 80 percent of all poor school age children in large cities.
 * 68.3 percent of the nation’s public school children were white, 16.5 percent were black, and 11.0 percent were Hispanic.
 * A [|Ten Year Study] of High School Sophomores 1980-1990
 * [|School Age Demographics 1980-1990]
 * [[image:One_parent_statistics.jpg]]

= The 1990s =


 * U.S. Population in 1990: 281,421,906 [[image:ilove90s.jpg width="285" height="250" align="right"]]
 * Unemployment (1999): 5.8 million, 4.2 percent
 * National Debt (1997): $3,830,000,000,000
 * Average Salary: $13.37/hour
 * Teacher's Salary (1998): $39,347
 * Life Expectancy: 73.1 (Male), 79.1 (Female)
 * Minimum Wage: $5.15
 * Adults who Posess Bachelor's Degree (1990): 20 percent
 * Adults who Possess Bachelor's Degree (1999): 25 percent
 * [|The State of Education] (2001, data from 1990s)
 * [|Household Income and Poverty Rates]
 * High School [|Dropout] Statistics
 * [|U.S. Census Bureau Demographic Profile], 2000
 * [|U.S. Census Bureau Demographic Profile], 2000

= The 2000s =
 * U.S. Population in 2000: 275,562,700
 * U.S. Population in 2010: 310,232,900
 * High school dropout rate in 2010: 6.9 percent
 * Life Expectancy: 78 years
 * Percent of Children Raised in Single-Mother Homes: 23
 * Number of Children Raised by Grandparents (no parents): 3 million
 * Number of Pre-School Children with Working Mothers: 75
 * Number of Immigrants Entering Country Each Year: 1 million
 * Number of U.S. Public Schools: 80,000
 * Number of computers in schools: more than 9 million
 * U.S. Poverty Rate among Children: 18 percent (the highest in the developed nations)
 * 14 million impoverished children
 * 8.9 million white (19 percent of all white children)
 * 4.2 million black (37 percent of all black children)
 * 3.9 million Hispanic
 * Number of Americans who Consider Themselves to be of Mixed Race: 7 million
 * More than 25 percent of black households have a higher income than the white average
 * 55.5 percent of the nation’s public school children were white, 15.5 percent were black, and 21.7 percent were Hispanic.
 * [|Digest of Education Statistics], 2009