GED Certificates
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The General Educational Development (GED) Testing Program is designed to provide adults who have not graduated from high school a means by which they may earn a high school equivalency diploma. This program may lead to entrance into higher education, increased opportunities for employment, or military enlistment. Due to an anticipated increase in the difficulty of the test after 2001, a greater number of people took and passed the GED test in Spartanburg County, South Carolina and the nation that year. In dollars and cents, research from the U.S. Department of Commerce indicates that the average life-time earnings for a dropout without a high school diploma are typically around $600,000. When the dropout earns a high school credential, the lifetime earnings increase by $200,000. 
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