Lopez, Mark Hugo2018-05-072018-05-072009-10-07http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83166Nearly nine-in-ten (89%) Latino young adults say that a college education is important for success in life, yet only about half that number—48%—say that they themselves plan to get a college degree, according to a new national survey of Latinos by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center. This report argues that the biggest reason for the gap between the high value Latinos place on education and their more modest aspirations to finish college appears to come from financial pressure to support a family, according to the survey.application/pdfCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 InternationalLatin American studentsHispanic studentseducational attainmentlow-income studentsstudent financial aidLatinos and Education:  Explaining the Attainment GapReporthttp://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/reports/115.pdf