http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/cjtc_pis/rss Recent eScholarship items from Poverty and Income Security Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:03:51 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tr8q92d <p>Welfare recipients’ abilities to attend college while receiving aid has been severely curtailed by the TANF program, due in part to concerns about long-term education in a time-limited program. Yet, prior research indicates that college enrollment, and particularly graduation, are strong indicators of positive future outcomes. Findings from the NLSY indicate that during the pre-TANF period, 17 percent of welfare spells had some overlap with college enrollment. Among women who enroll, however, just 36 percent graduate at any point in the 20-year NLSY panel and receipt of financial aid loans is a strong predictor of graduation. Attending college while on aid is associated with up to an additional one and a half years of aid receipt. Graduation may help to ameliorate this, although women who are already enrolled in college when they begin to receive welfare are more likely to graduate than those who start college as welfare recipients.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tr8q92d Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0000 London, Rebecca https://escholarship.org/uc/item/47b7c9xq <p>Today's welfare system does not encourage postsecondary education, focusing instead on services aimed at immediate employment. The loss of postsecondary education as a route out of poverty for welfare recipients may be detrimental to some women. College graduation is associated with lower rates of return to aid and post-welfare poverty than attendance without graduation or no attendance. However, graduation rates for welfare recipients are well below national graduation rates.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/47b7c9xq Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0000 London, Rebecca