Students who receive scholarships for college education not only assume less student debt, but also experience many additional outcomes which pay dividends to the larger community; a few of these include faster degree completion and higher graduation rates. Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation (CSF) engaged our team to help quantify the impact they make by supporting students in obtaining their degrees. Furthermore, we examined how those degree completions served the larger economy by meeting the local job demands and growing the labor force pool, increasing lifetime earnings for those students. By proxy, the also increase the tax base and revenue for the state and the county.
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