"The wealth of America is directly related to the investment our country makes in educating its people."
That's one of the main points I remember hearing when Dr. Robert King spoke at Campbellsville University earlier in the year. He said that from his research, results are clear that when America invests in education, as in the GI Bill, the country flourishes. He also pointed out that the lack of investment in its citizens may be the real reason for the resulting lack of jobs in the country today.

King gave these numbers that the Department of Education is working on improving:

• 800,000 of the 4.2 million people in Kentucky do not have a high school diploma,
• 500,000 of these are working age adults who started a program and never finished it,
• Approximately 536,000 adults, 21 percent of the working-age population, age 18 to 64, lack a high school or GED diploma.

- Linda Waggener