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epaa-8253	Billings, Meredith S.; Rubin, Paul G.; Gándara, Denisa	“There’s something ennobling…about struggling”: State policymakers’ framing of deservingness in the New Mexico Opportunity Scholarship	2025	29	.pdf	application/pdf	15384	667	46	We view the use of legislators’ language as intentional as “working parents” evoke positive social constructions since they are viewed as mature individuals with agency and responsibility whereas labeling college students as “kids” (who are technically legally adults in most cases) evoke negative social constructions because they are being infantilized and seen as irresponsible and immature, providing further evidence of their helplessness if they need the state or their parents to bail them out when they mess up. Our analysis of how New Mexico state legislators framed their support or opposition to the program offered notable insights into the processes that underlay the uniqueness of NMOS when compared to other promise programs.	cache/epaa-8253.pdf	txt/epaa-8253.txt