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Title: Balancing Work and Learning: Implications for Low-income Students

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: Go to school. Be financially responsible. Work hard. These are the tenets we teach our children about the responsible pursuit of the American Dream. Yet for some of the hardest-working students from low-income families, following these tenets has not led to the success they have been promised. These low-income working learners are going to school more and working more hours, yet struggling to make it. They have been failed by an education system that perpetuates intergenerational inequality;1 a labor market that offers them fewer high-quality job opportunities with career-building work experience while they are in school;2 skyrocketing college prices that make it practically impossible to work one’s way through college anymore;3 poor information about education and career pathways and their outcomes;4 and a lack of sufficient support mechanisms and a financial and social safety net.5 This is a shameful state of affairs. Policymakers, educators, and business leaders can and must do more to help these motivated and hardworking low-income working learners gain the valuable skills and quality experience they need to reach their potential.

Url: https://tacc.org/sites/default/files/documents/2018-08/low-income-working-learners-fr_0.pdf

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Authors: Carnevale, Anthony, P; Smith, Nicole

Publisher: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Other

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