The Government’s Assistance to Lower-Income Families’ Education

Abstract

Since there are inequalities in education level, and those inequalities form a huge gap between different family classes, such as students in the lower-income family can’t own equal education resources as higher-income family students, and the graduation rate remains to be standstill since the number of people educated is mostly higher-income students, but lower-income family students need education as well. The government began to pay attention to the lower-class families’ education level and wanted to balance the inequalities. Undoubtedly, the government took several actions by introducing new policies or constructing new institutions and programs such as the NCLA program assisting lower-income family students. In this paper, there will be analyzation of the policy or strategy used to assist lower-income family children and what advantages or disadvantages those strategies have, and finally, compare the policies used for lower-income families with higher-income families. Although there are difficulties or useless strategies while assisting the lower-income class, the government never gives up, this paper will also discuss how government plays its role in executing the assisting strategies. Besides educational strategies, there are other solutions that would be included as well, such as health or housing assistance. So the government made significant efforts to support lower-income households, and this support greatly advanced the growth of the entire nation.