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A survey of 2,000 young adults on their earning potentials was released by Pew Research Center today. The survey showed that young adults with bachelor’s degrees earned an annual income of about $45,500. In contrast, those with two-year degrees, or with a high school diploma, had an income of around $30,000, or about $28,000 every year. Over the course of a lifetime, people with degrees earn $1 million more than people who don’t finish college. College graduates in the survey were also more likely to have full-time jobs. They were much less likely to lose jobs. And fewer were living in poverty. Other studies have linked college degrees with better health and longer lives. They were less likely to commit crimes, and more likely to get married and stay married. “The result sounds encouraging for me to enter college and have a bright future,” one of the students in the survey said.