At the same time, many prestigious institutions that don't pledge to cover full financial need actually do much better in enrolling the poor.
Research findings indicated that the scheme was successful in enrolling the poor, and utilisation patterns were broadly comparable among urban members of different socioeconomic groups.
So what accounts for the difference in the number of poor students enrolled in two similar elite public university systems, California's and Michigan's?
Social assistance programs cannot help the poor if the poor do not enroll in them.
From initial data, it appears that approximately 55% of the poor have enrolled in the scheme, ranging from 11% in the state of Assam to 87% in the state of Tripura.
Rich and poor are enrolled in the same health insurance systems, they send their children to the same public preschools, they receive the same family allowances and so on.
Many states have tried to stitch up the hole by expanding Medicaid to include people who are not quite poor, and by enrolling more children in the federally funded State Children's Health Insurance Programme (SCHIP .This is expensive, however.
This fall, about 1 million poor children will enroll in kindergarten in the U.S. The vast majority of them live in single-parent families headed by women in the late teens or early 20s.
In 2012, 80 of ethnic minority children and 68 % of poor children were enrolled in the free health insurance program.
Poorly funded vouchers don't offer much of a chance for poor children to enroll in expensive alternative schools.
