Health, hope, and financial well-being are the results of giving new Oakland families money for their child’s future college education, according to results of a study announced this week.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, which partnered with Oakland Promise, a group that provides seed money for Oakland students to attend post-secondary schools.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.