What happened to the welfare students? Of the 132 first-, second-,
and third-year students enrolled in fall 1997, 70 percent remained
at EWU and were enrolled in fall 1998. Although these students
stayed in college, more than a fifth were no longer reporting
welfare as a source of income. The remaining 30 percent of the students, a total of 39, did not return to EWU. (These results are
summarized by number of students and class standing in Figure
4.