In Michigan, an experimentawarded automatic scholarshipsto the University of Michigan to high-achieving in-state students whose families’ low incomes made them eligible for free and reduced-price lunch. The programmore than doubled applicationsto the university among those students, according to resear...
Family IncomeThe purpose of this study was to assess how a comprehensive precollege intervention and developmental program among low-income high school students contributed to college enrollment outcomes measured in 2006. Our focus was on the Fifth Cohort of the Washington State Achievers (WSA) ...
Both the Housing Finance Commission and the Washington State Department of Commerce funnel funding and tax credits to affordable housing projects in Washington. The commission administers the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, which supports affordable multifamily housing units through federal ...
Resources for housing, bills, medical, employment, food and other needs for low-income families in Washington.
even though Florida State is five times bigger and has a much higher proportion of low-income students, according to the Teachers College study. The same is true of community colleges, which were typically built in the late 1960s and ’70s, after the old-line schools first grabbed their sel...
FCS operates under a Medicaid Section 1115demonstration waiver, which enables states to use Medicaid funding for services that wouldn’t traditionally be permitted by the program’s rules. A federal-state partnership, Medicaid provides health coverage for millions of low-income Americans. ...
The strategy also assures that the transition to clean energy will be inclusive, ensuring that low-income customers have access to these new energy sources through programs, grants and other funding. Tax incentives encourage developers to engage in renewable energy development activities that pay worker...
Keep the Capital Gains tax. This should be a no brainer. Washington unfortunately has the most regressive tax system in the nation, with low income people paying a much greater share of their income than the wealthiest. It is why our logging of state owned lands is needed at all, which ...
“assigned counsel” approach, with judges choosing local lawyers—often unpaid—to assist low-income people charged with a crime. But Foltz believed that approach was inadequate. Few highly paid lawyers would take such cases, leaving the work to those who had few clients because they were ...
3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Washington State Charter Schools Association and Excellent Schools Washington released "Game Changers: How Washington's Charter Public Schools Produce Exceptional Results for Students," a new report that highlights the academic success of charter publi...