According to the data provided, the higher the educational qualification a worker has, the less likely he or she will face unemployment, while an individual without a diploma high school seniors face an unemployment rate that is nearly double the national average. At the same time, Thompson's charts show that those with professional degrees and doctorates earn, on average, three times the median income of those without a high school diploma. Likewise, in addition to results from both ends of the spectrum, the graphs indicate that average employment rates and median incomes of workers increase with each level of higher education obtained. However, despite these statistics, Thompson indicates that 12% of young people in the United States are currently neither pursuing education nor employed. As a result, the United States lags behind countries such as Germany, France and Canada in this regard