Monday, June 12, 2017

Trump’s budget axes campus-based childcare for low-income students - Hechinger Report

About 4.8 million, or a quarter of all college students, have children, and 71 percent of student-parents are women, according to recent research by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Advocacy groups like the Young Invincibles have argued that expanding campus-based childcare for low-income families would help boost graduation rates. http://hechingerreport.org/president-trumps-proposed-budget-axes-program-provides-campus-based-childcare-low-income-students/