Bridging the Gap

Bridging the Gap: Higher Education and Career-Centered Welfare Reform

Metropolitan College of New York, the National Urban League, Medgar Evers College, the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, and The College Board hosted a one-day conference at MCNY. Bridging the Gap: Higher Education and Career-Centered Welfare Reform, examined the current welfare policy and considered the use of higher education as a tool.

Bridging the Gap panelists and speakers included academics, experts in the area of welfare reform, and policymakers. Panelists assessed the problems of current welfare policy as it relates to work, education, and parenting. Students affected by public assistance policies also were present and testified. The conference attendees discussed several models already in use for moving welfare recipients and low-income workers into meaningful and sustained careers.

These proceedings have been published in hopes that legislators considering further reform of welfare policy will consider the importance of education in breaking inter-generational poverty and producing self-reliant citizens.

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Welfare to Careers Project

The Education Welfare to Careers Project is a nationally replicable program, developed by The Education and Work Consortium, which links a college education to work experience and career development with the ultimate aim of permanently lifting welfare recipients out of poverty. The Consortium is a unique collaboration between Metropolitan College of New York, Pace University and Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York. Drawing on the broad and varied resources of its three member institutions, participants are offered a variety of educational opportunities and prepared for sustainable careers that will provide sufficient income to support a family. Graduates of the program, empowered with increased earning potential, will become ongoing contributors to the economy.

Participants are offered a full array of support services that will help them stay in school and remain on the job:

To find out more about the project please call: (212) 343-1234, ext. 3813 or 3814 or email

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