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The Role of Postsecondary Education in Welfare Recipients' Paths to Self-Sufficiency
- The Journal of Higher Education
- The Ohio State University Press
- Volume 77, Number 3, May/June 2006
- pp. 472-496
- 10.1353/jhe.2006.0024
- Article
- Additional Information
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.