The Costs to the Nation of Inadequate Education: A Report Prepared for the Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity of the United States Senate (1972)

The purpose of this study was to estimate the costs to the nation of inadequately educating a substantial portion of the population. The report finds that the failure to attain a minimum of high school completion by a proportion of the male population 24 to 34 years of age in 1969 was estimated to cost the nation 237 billion dollars in income over the lifetime of these men.