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Direct linkHoward, Adam; Levine, Arthur – About Campus, 2004
Shifts in federal financial aid policies over the past two decades have made college attendance increasingly difficult for the nation's poorest students. Furthermore, once these students do enroll, they lag far behind their more economically advantaged peers in graduation rates. Because financial aid increasingly emphasizes loans over grants, many…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Social Class, Low Income, Tax Credits
