Pell

In February 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an appropriations bill that would cut the Federal Pell Grant Program, beginning in July 2011. The bill is now being debated in the Senate as anxious students await the outcome for the college funding program. The Federal Pell Grant,...

Tacked on to the health care reform bill at the last minute was a bill to overhaul the student loan program and eliminate a $60 billion program for support of private student loans. If the reconciliation bill is passed by the Senate, all future federal student lending will be done by the federal...