Poutré, AlainVoight, Mamie2019-08-022019-08-022018-09-01http://hdl.handle.net/10919/92654As college costs steadily rise, students face unprecedented financial barriers as they pursue higher education. Many federal, state, and institutional policy makers tout free-college programs as solutions to addressing college affordability challenges. But IHEP analysis of two state free-college programs, Tennessee Promise and New York’s Excelsior Scholarship, show that to help low-income students afford college, free-college programs must be designed with equity at their core. The report identifies opportunities to better target existing programs and puts forth recommendations to help design equity-driven federal and state free-college programs.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalfinancial barriersbarriers to entry (postsecondary education)free collegelow-income studentsReporthttp://www.ihep.org/sites/default/files/uploads/docs/pubs/ihep_state_free_college_intro.pdf