Opportunity and Employment

"[Participants] will be enabled to get good educations that will lift them out of the slough of poverty," President Hinckley said.2

As of February 2011, nearly 90 percent of those who have sought work after completing their schooling have found employment. Some 78 percent of those now employed say that their current employment is an improvement over what they had before receiving training. The average income after schooling for PEF participants is three to four times greater than income prior to schooling, representing a vast improvement in economic status.