President needs to increase funding for PELL grants

It was just about this time of year 35 years ago, when the United States Congress passed into law a peculiarly American idea—every person should have access to a college or university.

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President Bush and the next Congress could begin to dramatically change the reliance on loans by significantly increasing Pell Grants, which as the name says, are grants—not loans. For the price of just two weeks of the cost of Iraq, they could almost double the Pell Grant program and free up our college graduates to spend their incomes in ways that improve both their lives and the economy.

Pat Williams
O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West http://www.crmw.org

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