Reading the Tea Leaves: More Cuts to Student Aid Expected

March 23, 2017
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The Trump Administration last week released a budget request to Congress that was light on detail and heavy on cuts to student aid. But while most of the concern over student aid affordability focused on the cuts to campus-based aid and raiding of a portion of the Pell Grant program’s surplus, one item was conspicuously absent from the president’s budget request: extending Pell inflation indexing past 2017, when it is set to expire.

Read more at New America: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/reading-tea-leaves-more-cuts-student-aid-expected/