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Low-Income Young Adults Are The New Face of the College-Going Population

At a time when President Obama has declared that “in the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program around is a world-class education,” the nation's 35.2 million young adults are increasingly seeking the social and economic benefits experienced only through postsecondary education. The new brief, A Portrait of Low-Income Young Adults in Education, the first of a new publication series called “Portraits” launched on June 9 by the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), indicates that while nearly 60 percent of young adults from low-income backgrounds had attended or earned a credential from a postsecondary institution in 2008, only one in 10 impoverished young adults who had earned a college degree failed to immediately transcend the poverty threshold. Click here to read more.
 
 



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