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What the debt ceiling deal means for your student loans

by Hannah Baggenstoss
Jun 2, 2023
A debt ceiling deal has been made, and student loan borrowers will have to start making payments again later this summer.
President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan is awaiting a decision by the Supreme Court.
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Millions of high schoolers don't fill out financial aid forms — and leave billions on the table

by Stephanie Hughes
Jan 31, 2023
You can't get federal grants unless you fill out the FAFSA.
Billions of dollars in Pell Grant money went unused last year. At least seven states have made filling out the FAFSA a requirement for high school graduation.
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Biden administration expands Pell Grant program for incarcerated students

by Stephanie Hughes
Apr 26, 2022
It's a shift from nearly three decades ago, when Congress banned incarcerated people from having access to Pell Grants.
“This gives students who are in prison an opportunity to actually pay tuition at these programs that are going to prepare them to return to life, to find a job and to move on,” says James Kvaal, undersecretary of the Department of Education, about the Second Chance Pell program. Above, inmates read in the library at the York Correctional Institution in Connecticut in 2016.
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Pell Grant program could be expanded to full year

by Reema Khrais
Jun 9, 2016
Greater Pell funding could help boost graduation rates for college students.
Expanding the Pell Grant program could give about 1 million students an extra $1,650 a year on average.
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Boosting Pell Grants to help students graduate on time

by Adriene Hill
Jan 20, 2016
The Obama administration wants to increase financial aid for full-time students
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Coding boot camp? There may be a Pell Grant for that

by Janet Nguyen
Jul 2, 2015
US education department looks at giving aid to students in unaccredited programs.
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