{"id":18947,"date":"2011-02-26T12:11:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T17:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/18947\/obama-cuts-pell-grants\/"},"modified":"2011-02-26T12:11:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T17:11:48","slug":"obama-cuts-pell-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/18947\/obama-cuts-pell-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Cuts Pell Grants &#8211; rerun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">Bush<\/span> Obama cuts Pell Grants.<\/p>\n<p>While Middle Class Americans have had stagnate wages hovering around an average of 33,000 a year since 2000, the cost of higher education has more than doubled in the same time frame.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Education\/2011\/0225\/Washington-trims-Pell-Grants-How-will-students-pay-fall-tuition\">http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Education\/2011\/0225\/Washington-trims-Pell-Grants-How-will-students-pay-fall-tuition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;The House passed a proposal Feb. 19 that, among cuts in other areas, would reduce Pell Grants by $5.7 billion for this fall. That would cut the average grant by $785, and would bring down the maximum grant by $845 dollars to $4,705.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Interesting choices we make. It reminds me of trying to pay for a 68 corvette with your kids&#8217; lunch money. These choices cause extreme hardship on those needing the grants to continue school, many of which will drop out and yet impact the budget very little.<\/p>\n<p>Ya know we did the same thing in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2004-12-23\/politics\/pell.grants_1_pell-grants-college-students-federal-student-aid?_s=PM:EDUCATION\">http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2004-12-23\/politics\/pell.grants_1_pell-grants-college-students-federal-student-aid?_s=PM:EDUCATION<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rense.com\/general61\/cut.htm\">http:\/\/www.rense.com\/general61\/cut.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How well did that work out? Did it balance the Budget?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.school-scholarship.org\/2011\/01\/headzup-pell-grants-vs-tax-cuts\/\">http:\/\/www.school-scholarship.org\/2011\/01\/headzup-pell-grants-vs-tax-cuts\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take some time and listen to Austan Goolsbee on the Daily Show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/thu-february-24-2011\/austan-goolsbee\">http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/thu-february-24-2011\/austan-goolsbee&#8221;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush Obama cuts Pell Grants. While Middle Class Americans have had stagnate wages hovering around an average of 33,000 a year since 2000, the cost of higher education has more than doubled in the same time frame. http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Education\/2011\/0225\/Washington-trims-Pell-Grants-How-will-students-pay-fall-tuition &#8220;&#8230;The House passed a proposal Feb. 19 that, among cuts in other areas, would reduce Pell Grants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}