Title: Census: More Americans have college degrees than ever before | TheHill
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Content: Wide disparities in educational attainment still exist along racial lines, the Census shows. More than 37 percent of non-Hispanic white Americans have a college degree, while just 23 percent of African-Americans have reached the same level of formal education. Only 16.4 percent of Hispanic Americans have a college degree. Still, the percentage of both African-Americans and Hispanic Americans who have attained a college degree has grown in recent years. Among African-Americans, college graduation has doubled since 1991. Among Hispanics, the number of college graduates has increased 60 percent in the last 20 years. Asian Americans are most likely to have attained a college degree: More than half, 55.9 percent, have completed a four-year college program. Higher education levels have strong correlations with higher average earnings, underscoring efforts in Congress and in state legislatures to increase access to college education for low-income and minority students. Adults with only a high school education earned an average of $35,615 in 2016, according to the Census figures.