Here's What You Need to Know About the Financial Aid Program Obama Quietly Killed

in the news | January 27, 2015

Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Ben Miller:

"We knew the year-round Pell Grant program had a reputation of being way more expensive than everyone had thought," Miller says, "but what we really found was that the year-round Pell Grant was a victim of larger circumstances beyond its control."

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