Pell Grants Could be Cut

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Posted: 10:29 PM Mar 20, 2010 Pell Grants Could be Cut More education funding could soon be slashed. The popular Pell Grant is facing a $19 billion budget gap.

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Federal officials are blaming an economic downturn. They say they underestimated the number of low income recipients this year.

Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, says 600,000 students could lose their Pell Grant, while 8 million could see reduced funding.

The program provides federal grants based on financial need.

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Posted by: jenni Location: DeKalb Il on Mar 21, 2010 at 01:01 AM

I really hope that it is not true. If they were to cut the funding for pell grants millions of students, including me, would not be able to complete the education that they work so hard for and millions of others would not be able to start to continue their education. Is the government going to be able to pay the students back for the private loans that they have also had to take out because they can not complete their education, because they can no longer afford to go to school. Here is an idea instead of cutting off this country's future, by cutting funding, why don't they make the people that are living on welfare for the last five years and making no move to better themselves, get a job where they can support their kids and not have to live off of hard working people's tax money. I think that cutting pell grant funding would be one of the biggest mistakes that this country has made lately because you are cutting off the people that want to make their lives better.

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