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[Vengeance]

Bush Freezes Federal College Scholarship, or Pell Grant
Just as college tuition is rising and the buying power of grants continues to erode, President Bush has frozen the maximum Pell Grant at $4,050 in his FY 2005 education budget. This is the 3rd year in a row that Bush has frozen or cut the maximum Pell Grant.

Despite Bush’s protests that restoring the buying power of the Pell Grant won’t stop rising college costs, he continues to ignore the tuition problem. Not only has he failed to address rising college tuition, but his budget makes college even more expensive by freezing or cutting student aid and taxing students.


Rest of the article can be found at http://edworkforce.house.gov/democrats/pellgrantsummary.html


Honestly, I can't afford to go to school without this thing. So anyone else financially screwed by this or is it just me?

[LostArtofRolando]

i personally have not had to face the burgeoning costs of school (scholarship covered it), but have had to deal with all of the other costs of going to school and then some, so i definitely hear you.  My best friend just got done paying $18,000 a year in tuition to go to a Jesuit university, and now that hes having to pay back those loans, i can see how bad that can be (hes my roomie).  Whoever said college was easy must have meant just the classes, because my ass has been working fulltime for five years just paying for my costs that were not tuition related (dorm for 4 years, books, gas, insurance, car payment, and oh yeah, my damn expensive tastes for collecting 80s toys).