Economics major Eva Romero ’26 finds ‘education is your way out of poverty’

Graduating senior Eva Romero knows her facts. “Fewer than 60 percent of students in the United States who enroll full-time at a four-year school will graduate with a bachelor’s degree within six years,” she said, “and the challenge is even greater for low-income students.” According to research from Notre Dame’s Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO), where Romero served as a research operations intern, only 26 percent of students in the lowest quarter of incomes will complete...