One of Obama's claims to success,
during this last campaign, was lower costs for college students. I knew
it was a lie, at the time, because one of my grandsons just found out the money he received for college, last
year, is no longer available, this year.
From The
Examiner , we have this
post-election update:
Sorry, college students. President Obama has cut your access
to Pell Grants by 33%; he just forgot to mention it before Election Day.
During the recent campaign, President Obama claimed credit
for increasing funding to the Pell Grant program, which provides college funds,
free from repayment, to millions of students. However, an email sent out
Tuesday to some Dallas college students is revealing a detail the President
forgot to mention: the time a student can receive a Pell Grant has been cut, by
as much as three years. With Pell Grants for the fall semester now dispersed,
colleges are informing students of their options, bringing the cuts to light.
The email, sent out by the Dallas County Community College
District, informed students of the changes to the Pell Grant program. It
revealed that the number of semesters a student could receive a Pell Grant had
been cut from 18 semesters down to 12. It is a detail likely unknown to most
students; in fact, the cut in grants has gone largely unreported by the media.
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