Is Biden Scaling Back His Higher-Ed Agenda?

"President Biden is set to repeat some of his longstanding higher-education priorities in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, calling for more federal spending for low-income students and at minority-serving institutions," The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. 

..."To make college more affordable for those who do attend, Biden will ask Congress for a $2,000 increase in the maximum Pell Grant for low-income students, and to make that money available to 'Dreamers' — people who arrived in the country, without proper documents, as children.

That would be a significant increase in the award, which is now capped at nearly $6,500 and has been outpaced by both inflation and college prices for the past 40 years, according to an analysis by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators."

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Publication Date: 3/1/2022

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