Pell Grants - Eligibility & Application Advice & NewsMoney ruled these midterms, as pundit Jon Stewart of 'The Daily Show' pointed out. And in a big way. A $4 Billion big way. Yes, that's how much cash was inserted into the combined races for all the candidates in all the races this midterm season. And as Stewart also pointed out, it seems that 'ideas' were not on the ballot this year. A recent survey conducted by the Public Policy Center of Pennsylvania asked over 1,400 American adults to do a simple task that every elementary school child should know, which is to name the three branches of our federal government. The results leave me more than a little frustrated and despaired. Over one third of respondents could not name the three branches of government.
Pell Grants News & Opinion Articles |  | Wed Mar 08, 2017 | rollingstone.com
A few weeks after September 11th, 2001, with the nation reeling from the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., about 400 or so of the country's leading... |
|  | Thu Dec 10, 2015 | npr.org
President Obama called it "a Christmas miracle. A bipartisan bill signing right here."
The "right here" was the South Court Auditorium, part of the White House complex.... |
|  | Wed Jul 15, 2015 | vox.com
In a tweetstorm following his speech at the NAACP's 2015 national convention, President Barack Obama provided a different way to look at that cost by explaining what that... |
|  | Tue May 19, 2015 | vox.com
The big banks got bailed out, and presidential contender Bernie Sanders says they should pay it forward.
The independent senator from Vermont introduced his plan on... |
|  | Wed May 13, 2015 | theatlantic.com
Executive overreach, now as always, is in the eye of the beholder.
George Will, for example, has railed against “institutional vandalism of Barack Obama’s executive... |
|  | Thu May 07, 2015 | vox.com
Stephen Colbert just announced an $800,000 gift to South Carolina teachers — enough to fund every project in the state on DonorsChoose, the teacher crowdfunding website.... |
|  | Tue Feb 24, 2015 | theatlantic.com
My 5-year-old son won’t learn the same history in high school that I did when I was a teenager. Certain events that I was tested on will probably be entirely omitted from... |
|  | Wed Jul 23, 2014 | thewire.com
The Department of Education reported a mistake in Pell Grant application forms that could result in tens of thousands of students losing their financial aid status. |
|  | Mon Jul 14, 2014 | nationaljournal.com
House Republicans propose giving eligible students the flexibility to access all of their Pell Grant money at once. Would that reform raise graduation rates? |
|  | Wed May 28, 2014 | slate.com
Barack Obama’s plan for a universal rating system for America’s colleges and universities, announced last year and the subject of a New York Times front-pager this week, is... |
Pell Grants Videos |  | Thu Aug 22, 2013
Calling higher education an "economic imperative," President Barack Obama is pushing for a new rating system for... |
|  | Tue Apr 03, 2012
Pell Grants have completely changed Dakota Remy's life. Under President Obama, 3 million more students now receive... |
|  | Mon Apr 04, 2011
A Republican Congressman describes Pell Grants as welfare for college students. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss. |
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