As every Pell recipient knows, getting good grades in college is tough. But paying for soaring tuition and fees can be just as challenging. Even with our Pell grants, over 70 percent of us have to hold down a job to make ends meet. Pell helps hardworking students stay in school and earn their way into a promising career.
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College costs are skyrocketing: Since the early 1980s, college tuition and fees have grown by 538 percent — nearly twice the pace of healthcare costs and almost five times that of inflation. Reblog this image to spread the word.
Save Pell advocates, your hard work has not gone unnoticed! Save Pell is one of several campaigns to be nominated for the New Organizing Institute's Most Valuable Campaign of 2011. To cast your vote, follow this link and click the "like" button next to Save Pell. Please reblog! →
Recently, Arkansas college student Kelly Eubanks spoke up at a town hall meeting held by her congressman Rep. Steve Womack to ask about his votes to cut Pell Grants while maintaining subsidies for the oil industry. But Womack stonewalled the mother of two, who works two jobs and counts on Pell to continue her education.
Pell Grants, student loan debt, and the predatory practices of some for-profit college companies — under the banner of college affordability — are all emerging as big issues on the national agenda. Our elected officials must address these issues now!
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Short-sighted. Foolish. Dangerous. These are just some of the words that could describe what Congress has proposed for the fate of Pell Grants. Instead of protecting this critical investment in our collective future, the House of Representatives would rather kick more than half a million students out of the program within the next few months. Take action and reblog this link! →
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