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Download full textHamilton, Gayle; Scrivener, Susan – Urban Institute, 2012
Increasing education among low-income parents is a vital component of policies to improve families' economic status. Educational attainment matters: between 1979 and 2005, wages for those with college and advanced degrees rose by 22 and 28 percent, respectively, while wages for high school graduates remained stagnant and wages for high school…
Descriptors: Welfare Recipients, Postsecondary Education, Low Income Groups, Parents
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Today's welfare system does not encourage postsecondary education, focusing instead on immediate employment. The loss of postsecondary education as a route out of poverty may be detrimental to some women. College graduation is associated with lower rates of recidivism and post-welfare poverty than attendance without graduation or no attendance.…
Descriptors: Welfare Recipients, Postsecondary Education, Poverty, Graduation
