"One recent study, highlighting the role that many believe formal education plays in the workplace, reports that almost one in five (19 percent) Americans - which amounts to roughly 40 million adults in the United States - say they know someone at their current or past job who has been passed over for a job because they didn't have the right academic degree," Diverse Issues in Higher Education reports. "One in 10 (10 percent) respondents say they themselves have been denied a job during their careers for not having a degree. Other significant findings from the survey found that more Blacks than White Americans say they have been denied job opportunities because of a lack of a college degree. The study revealed that 25 percent of Black respondents reported they were denied either a job, promotion or a raise, compared to 13 percent of Whites."