Word: pelle
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...former six-term Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, aristocratic Claiborne Pell, 90, helped pass the 1972 law that created Pell grants for college students. The program has funded millions of higher-education opportunities...
...qualms about the debt take a backseat to worries about a depression, the scope of the stimulus plan has grown to include everything from expanding Pell grants for college students and health care for the unemployed to investment in renewable energy. Instead of temporary measures meant to prop up the sagging economy over the next two years, much of what has been proposed looks like a laundry list of Obama campaign promises. If the plan is passed, Obama will get, in one fell swoop, a running start on large swaths of his long-term agenda, the ultimate cost of which...
...Education: On the table are funds to help special ed students, expanded Pell grants for college students and increased money for Head Start programs. All of these items were Obama campaign promises that will require renewed funding in two years; they will be difficult for Democrats to scale back...
...continuing resolution, which postpones budgetary decisions until after the presidential election to avoid a presidential veto by President Bush, keeps the maximum Pell Grant award level and federal support for research organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy constant, through March 6. If the continuing resolution had not been passed, such decisions would have been completed by October...
...proposed changes, issued last Thursday by the independent Rethinking Student Aid study group, include obtaining all financial information from the IRS, instead of requiring that students compile tax information themselves. The report also calls for adjusting the size of Pell Grants for inflation while accounting for family size and adjusted gross income...