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Source: Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community - UC, Santa Cruz
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1. London, Rebecca A.
The Role of Postsecondary Education in Welfare Recipients' Paths to Self-Sufficiency
Working Paper, Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Also: http://www2.ucsc.edu/cjtc/docs/wp_WelfareRecipients_postsecondaryEducation.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Keyword(s): College Graduates; Education; Educational Attainment; Educational Returns; Poverty; Schooling, Post-secondary; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); Welfare

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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.
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London, Rebecca A. "The Role of Postsecondary Education in Welfare Recipients' Paths to Self-Sufficiency." Working Paper, Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz.