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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
Hodgkinson, Virginia Ann – Public Policy Monograph Series, 1981
The initial impact of the Middle Income Student Assistance Act (MISAA) was analyzed by comparing student aid recipients and student aid packaging before and after the passage of the Act. Student aid records from a national sample of aid recipients attending independent colleges and universities from 1978-79 through 1979-80 were assessed. In…
Descriptors: College Students, Family Income, Federal Legislation, Grants
