Key Points ・The Pell Grant eligibility formula uses the Student Aid Index (SAI) and expands access based on adjusted gross ...

Workforce Pell opens the door to a new category of education: programs straddling the worlds of workforce training and higher education. If implemented well, this policy could provide students with ...

New projections for the federal Pell Grant program now estimate a $2.7 billion funding shortfall later this year. About 40% of college students rely on Pell Grants, a type of aid available to ...

Funding the Pell Grant has long been bipartisan because both Republicans and Democrats agree that the Pell Grant works. They know that financial aid isn’t a handout but an investment that pays big ...

The Trump administration proposed cuts to the Pell Grant, TRIO and other educational aid programs in May, creating concern ...

(The Conversation) – As an education researcher who has studied the economic returns of higher education, I know that college degrees remain cost-effective investments for most students. But college ...

Michele Norris talks with Brian Fitzgerald, staff director of the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, about the government's new formula for financial aid, which will reduce the Pell ...

A new report found that federal disinvestment in Pell Grants hit higher ed in Southern states hard. It also likely played a ...

College advocates breathed a sigh of relief when the U.S. Department of Education said the Trump Administration’s “federal funding freeze” would not affect federal Pell Grants and student loans.

Nearly 75% of all undergraduates receive some type of financial aid, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. About 40% of college students rely on Pell Grants, a type of federal aid ...