id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5655 Educational attainment in the United States - Wikipedia .html text/html 7369 845 59 Overall, the demographics with the highest educational attainment in the United States are also those with the highest household income and wealth.[3] There are significant differences in income depending on the major area of study of the degree attained with graduates in technical disciplines (especially engineering) getting much higher initial salaries and overall salaries as compared to non-technical degrees. While the educational attainment of all races increased during the 1990s, with the gap between African Americans and non-Hispanic whites decreasing, differences between the races remain, especially among those with a bachelor's degree or higher. Asian Americans had the highest educational attainment of any race, followed by whites who had a higher percentage of high school graduates but a lower percentage of college graduates. Racial income difference were also significant at every level of educational attainment with the largest racial inequality being between European and African Americans who did not complete high school and those with advanced college degrees.[3] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5655.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5655.txt