Studies Link Recession, Education Opportunities
Associated Press - Sat 03:54 PM 09/29/2012
Lower-income residents lacked the financial assets to weather the economic downturn and still have money for college.
New studies by University of Kansas researchers find that the downturn in the economy has made it more difficult for those on the lower end of the income levels to obtain educational opportunities.
The reports, released earlier in September, looked at the instability caused by the Great Recession and the effect on children's educational opportunities. The conclusions were that lower-income residents lacked the financial assets to weather the economic downturn and still have money for college.
The studies were conducted by the Assets and Education Initiative within the university's School of Social Welfare.
The studies conclude that recession sharpens the focus of lower-income families on the immediate "here and now" needs, of food, shelter and survival.
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kansasboy91
Saturday 29 September 2012 22:37 Report this comment
Ugh no s!@t! Someone like me who works all the time and didn't get the best grades in high school didn't get to go to college like I wanted/needed. So now I'm working a crap job being told I'm worthless by my employer and if I don't like it then I can leave. Now 3 years later out of high school do I have the ability to go to college and now I'll be way older than everyone else in my class. I'll be a freshman when all my friends are seniors. Can't beleive they needed some "educated" person to figure out the lower income families get screwed every day, all day.
t-bone
Sunday 30 September 2012 08:00 Report this comment
and it's only going to get worse
GETALIFE674
Sunday 30 September 2012 09:47 Report this comment
Here's the kicker they use taxpayer monies to fund these studies.
Victory2012
Sunday 30 September 2012 12:12 Report this comment
ditto t-bone.
Iamgonnagetyou
Sunday 30 September 2012 12:34 Report this comment
Ditto getalife.