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Title: Investing in Single Mothers' Higher Education in New Hampshire
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Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: In New Hampshire, 18 percent of all undergraduates, or 17,655 students, are parents and 8,123 college students are single mothers. 1 Ensuring that these single mothers complete their degrees will improve their families' well-being and economic security and bring important benefits to the New Hampshire economy. College graduates have higher earnings, higher rates of employment, and lower poverty rates than those without degrees. 2 Their children also reap important benefits, such as improved behavioral and academic outcomes and an increased likelihood of going to college themselves. 3 Despite the substantial benefits experienced by single mothers who earn college degrees, they are some of the least likely students to earn them: just eight percent of single mother undergraduates in the United States earn an associate or bachelor's degree within six years of enrolling in college, compared with nearly half (49 percent) of women in college who are not mothers. 4 Taking steps to improve single mothers' college success also has important implications for racial and ethnic equity in higher education. Among female college students nationally, 31 percent of Black women, 23 percent of Native American/Alaska Native women, 17 percent of women of two or more races, and 16 percent of Latina women are single mothers, compared with 13 percent of White and seven percent of Asian/Pacific Islander women. 5 Single mothers in New Hampshire who graduate with an A.A.: • Are 47 percent less likely to live in poverty than a high school graduate. • Earn $284,340 more over their lifetime than what they would have earned with only a high school education. • Save New Hampshire $26,854 in public assistance spending over their lifetime. • Contribute $70,630 more in lifetime taxes than a single mother with only a high school diploma.
Url: https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/New-Hampshire.pdf
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Authors: Cruse, Lindsey Reichlin; Milli, Jessica; Contreras-Mendez, Susana; Holtzman, Tessa; Gault, Barbara
Publisher: Institute for Women's Policy Research
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Poverty and Welfare
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