Balancing The Budget With Pell Grant Cuts. By Matthew Yglesias on Jun 15, 2011 at 11:29 am. The Pell Grant program has seen a lot of spending increases in .

Republicans Eye Cuts to Pell Grants to Gain Tea Party Votes. July 29, 2011 by Nancy Lewis. Supporters of Pell Grants for low-income college students put out .

Feb 13, 2011 – President Obama is planning some major budget cuts, and it could mean big changes for students hoping to attend college.

Apr 5, 2011 – If Congress cuts the Pell Grant program's budget this year .

Mar 3, 2011 – According to CBPP research, downsizing the discretionary awards could lead to $64 billion in cuts in mandatory funding for Pell Grants in the .

Apr 15, 2011 – For-profit colleges, led by Apollo Group Inc .'s University of Phoenix, will be disproportionately hurt by cuts in the $30 billion Pell Grant program .

Aug 4, 2011 – In a deficit-reduction deal that is almost all about cutting government spending, one federal program emerged with more money: Pell grants, .

Jul 27, 2011 – “If the set of options included cutting the maximum Pell Grant, changing the amount of credits required for a Pell Grant or getting money from an .

Aug 27, 2011 – Going to college is not only a mentally daunting experience, but also a financially exhausting one. The costs of a higher education only seem to .

Apr 18, 2011 – Only 3 percent of Pell recipients have grants for more than six years, but cutting the maximum eligibility period to eight or even six years (they .

Aug 9, 2011 – Possible future cuts to the Pell Grant program could impact students' abilities to be trained for the work force, official said.

Sep 29, 2011 – House Republicans announced plans to cut funding for Pell college tuition grants , NPR and other Democratic priorities, setting up another .

Aug 2, 2011 – A federal subsidy that aids graduate students would be eliminated to boost funding for Pell grants that help low-income undergraduates, under .

Apr 4, 2011 – Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, say they will fight any cuts in the federal Pell Grant program, for which spending has .

Feb 14, 2011 – ABOUT THOSE PELL GRANT CUTS. . The White House budget proposes a variety of spending cuts, but the reductions to the Pell grant .

Jul 24, 2011 – The possibility of funding cuts for Pell Grants could .

Feb 14, 2011 – Reports that President Obama's budget request would cut Pell Grant funding first began to circulate over the weekend. If you happened to see .

Feb 13, 2011 – The Republican leadership of the US House of Representatives released a proposal to cut the maximum Pell Grant to $4015 late on Friday, .

May 24, 2011 – Helping more Mainers attain college or other post-secondary education is essential for the state's economic future. Most state policy leaders .

Apr 14, 2011 – Despite almost $40 billion in government-wide budget cuts, the Pell Grant program, once a potential victim of these cuts, has been sustained for .

May 20, 2011 – Students fear Pell Grant cuts | YNN, Your News Now, brings you the latest local news and weather across Upstate New York.

May 3, 2011 – After expecting cuts, the Pell Grants survived the federal budget process. The United States Senate Committee on Appropriations recently .

Mar 2, 2011 – More than 9 million students may receive less federal funding this fall.

Jul 31, 2011 – On July 26, more than 30 thousand letters were sent to Congress advocating that the Pell Grant be spared from pending budget cuts.

Feb 13, 2011 – House Republicans' Spending Bill for Remainder of 2011 Would Cut Pell Grant by 15 Percent. By Kelly Field. Washington. Republicans in the .

Feb 14, 2011 – The Pell Grant program, which provides millions of dollars in aid to University of Minnesota students, could face steep cuts over the next 10 .

Feb 13, 2011 – The proposed cut in the maximum Pell Grant would mean that almost one fifth of current recipients -- or 1.7 million low-income students -- would .

Feb 13, 2011 – WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama's budget Monday will propose cutting $100 billion dollars from the Pell grant program and other .

Oct 14, 2011 – He suggests cutting spending on the Pell Grant program for college students.

The Definitive Explanation of the 2011-2012 Pell Grant Cuts. Written by Michael Bennet. Due to an unexpected shortfall in funding for the federal Pell Grant .

Jul 19, 2011 – Opinion: Cuts to Pell Grants will only worsen US debt. By Rich Williams, U.S. Public Interest Research Group and Justin Draeger. Congress is .

Feb 16, 2011 – Pell grant cuts won't 'win the future'. The Pell program is on course to serve 9 million students in 2012, writes Esther Cepeda. But right when the .

Jul 23, 2011 – Wim Wiewel: Nationwide, more than 8.5 million undergraduate students received federal Pell grants last year, three-fourths of them from .

Aug 1, 2011 – WASHINGTON -- The proposed compromise between congressional .

Feb 14, 2011 – The White House seeks two cuts to the federal government's biggest financial aid program. One seems reasonable, another more risky.

Republicans are clamoring for cuts in Pell grants, either through reducing the maximum award size from $5550 or restricting student eligibility. The budget .

Feb 16, 2011 – The Republicans' spending bill and President Obama's plan both propose to cut into the Pell Grant program, which gives need-based grant .

Jul 29, 2011 – Robert Siegel talks with Jeff Selingo, editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education, about why the federal Pell Grant program, aimed at helping .

Jul 21, 2011 – Franken wants the president to reject any more cuts to the federal Pell Grant program as he and lawmakers work on debt limit negotiations. .

Jul 21, 2011 – For much of the early history of the U.S., college was only for a small segment of society, the elite. As the need for more practical education and .

Apr 12, 2011 – Pell Grants are not the singular cause of our fiscal problems, and cutting them is not the solution; the Editorial Board hopes that our U.S. .

Sep 29, 2011 – 29 (Bloomberg) -- House Republicans announced plans to cut funding for Pell college tuition grants, NPR and other Democratic priorities, .

May 11, 2011 – A budget proposal passed last month by the House of Representatives could reduce the maximum amount per grant from $5500 to $3040, and .

Feb 14, 2011 – President Obama's new 2012 budget will seek to cut $100 billion in Pell Grant funding -- a plan that spells yet another blow to free federal aid .

Jul 28, 2011 – We don't have all the cuts we like in this bill but we're willing to compromise,” Cantor said. The inclusion of the extra money for Pell Grants .

Mar 24, 2011 – If Republican budget cuts pass, nearly one quarter of current Pell Grant recipients would lose their eligibility, while those remaining would see .

Mar 1, 2011 – In some cases, such as Pell Grants, the paper provides the state-by-state effects of proposed cuts. (See Appendix.) The larger context in which .

Jul 19, 2011 – Under the proposed cuts and changes to Pell, the average Pell Grant award to Georgia students would fall from $3853 to $2018, and 42722 .

Aug 2, 2011 – Pell Grants Avoid Cuts—For Now. Program that Helps Low-Income Students Attend College Saw Increased Spending in Debt Limit Deal .

Pell Grants safe from 2012 budget cuts. Proposed FY 2012 budget ups funds to aid program. by Amy D'Onofrio. Issue: February 17, 2011 | News. President .

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