From Poverty to Self-Sufficiency: The Role of Postsecondary Education in Welfare Reform

The Center for Women Policy Studies reports that the District of Columbia and 49 states count postsecondary education as a work activity under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) welfare program. Despite this, recipients' college participation rates have plummeted compared with their non-welfare counterparts. Read this December 2002 analysis of TANF implementation statutes.