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President Bush proposed increasing the maximum Pell Grant amount by $500 over the next five years for the 4.6 million recipients of the federal financial aid. The Pell Grant, which 600 students at Harvard currently receive, is an annual grant of up to $4,050 for low income college student...
...black men under 40 have been in jail, and according to a study by Community Service Society, a nonprofit that advocates for low-income people, almost half of black men in New York City are jobless. But middle-class blacks are more concerned about affirmative action and cuts in Pell grants to pay for college tuition...
...After all, who doesn’t love historic bathhouses and weather folklore?) But what Peterson and his fellow champions of pet projects presumably won’t be including in their glossy re-election campaign brochures is that Congress also approved an adjustment to the chronically under-funded Pell Grant program, the principal means by which American students receive need-based government grants to attend college. Eligibility for the awards is determined in part by an examination of state tax information, but lawmakers chose to use tax tables that were out of date, clearing the way for some...
...this might seem to have little consequence for Harvard students. A November 2003 article in The Crimson reported that a scant 9 percent of Harvard undergraduates receive Pell Grants in the first place. And if any of those students were to lose their federal money under the new calculations, Harvard would continue to grant the student that amount under the College’s commitment to meet 100 percent of a student’s demonstrated financial need...
Next year, government finance for post-secondary education will come under the legislative microscope again when Congress debates the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, the federal law that provides the architecture for the Pell Grant program. Harvard should set its lobbyists on Capital Hill to work. They should not only preserve the money to which low-income undergraduates here have the right, but also articulate the broader social agenda that the government should not be shirking its duty to provide equal opportunity economically disadvantaged students at all levels and institutions of post-secondary education...