Arkansas legislators lag nation in college experience

[Zephie]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuters) – The Arkansas legislature has the nation's highest percentage of state lawmakers who have not attended college at all, according to a new study by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

There are 135 legislators in Little Rock, 25 percent of whom do not have any college experience, according to the study. Comparatively, 8.7 percent of all state lawmakers nationwide have not attended college.

The five states with the highest percentage of legislators without any college are Arkansas, Montana, Kansas, South Dakota and Arizona.

The most formally educated state legislatures -- those with the highest percentage of lawmakers that have a bachelor's degree or higher -- are in California, Virginia, Nebraska, New York and Texas.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110614/od_nm/us_legislators_arkansas

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Article goes on to say Arkansas ranks 50th among the states in the percentage of people 25 and up with a bachelor's degree.

[Coyote_Bandit]

1. And there are counties in Arkansas

where the entire population is less than 15,000 and the poverty rate matches or exceeds that of the Appalachians.

[B-Stupid]

2. Meh.....

GW graduated from Yale & Harvard.....How did that work out for us again?