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Pell Grant Mission Creep: How a Federal Program for Low-Income Families Expanded to the Middle Class
Download full textDelisle, Jason D.; Christensen, Cody – American Enterprise Institute, 2019
The federal Pell Grant was designed to help low-income students pay for college. But over the past two decades, a growing share of middle-income students have become eligible for the program. This was not policymakers' explicit goal. This report examines how the program came to increasingly provide students from middle-income families with grants,…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Grants, Federal Programs, Low Income Students
Direct linkSilliman, Benjamin Rue – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2005
This study examined the use of education tax credits at four community colleges using data from the Federal Quality Assurance Program in 1998, the first year of the HOPE Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Tax Credit (LLTC). Preliminary estimates indicated that the two tax credits were expected to primarily benefit middle-income tax filers with…
Descriptors: Taxes, Tax Credits, Paying for College, Student Costs
