Tag: socioeconomic status
Abstract This paper reexamines impacts from the Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND) to explore previously unexamined racial differences in participant outcomes. It examines whether the impacts of BOND differed by participants’ race/ethnicity and the extent to which community-level racial inequities in economic conditions are correlated with participant outcomes that were central to BOND’s goals. It…
In the late 1960s and 1970s, the U.S. Social Security Administration subsidized college expenses for young adults with deceased, disabled or retired parents who were receiving dependent benefits. The other requirements were that they were full-time students and remained single while they were in school. The baby boomers who participated in that program, which ended…
