A Portrait of Low-Income Young Adults in Education (July 6, 2010)

"Current and future economic conditions necessitate a greater demand for post-secondary education. Learning beyond high school has become a basic requirement for individual success in the labor market (Institute for Higher Education Policy 2005; Perna 2007) as well as a driver for workforce development (Carnevale and Desrochers 2002) and social mobility (Goldrick-Rab and Shaw 2005). Clearly, with over half of new jobs requiring some form of post-secondary education, the challenges facing low-income young adults have taken on added significance."

This 12-page PDF document is from the Portraits Series, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP). Click here to read the study.

http://www.ihep.org/assets/files/publications/m-r/(Brief)_A_Portrait_of_Low-Income_Young_Adults_in_Education.pdf