Pell Grants Aren’t Welfare: Tell Us Your Story
The future of America and its working-class students are in danger.
As Washington weighs cuts to the federal budget, the Pell Grant program is on the chopping block. Pell is the federal aid program that fuels the future of hard-working students nationwide. Nearly 10 million Americans depend on Pell Grants to enroll in and complete college. If the maximum grant is cut or eligibility requirements for the program change, fewer working families will be able to send their children to college at a time when our economy needs more college graduates, not fewer.
Congress needs to hear how Pell Grants keep the promise of a college education — and all that it offers — alive for hard-working students.
Whether you or someone you know has benefited from a Pell Grant (or if you simply support keeping college opportunity open to all), we invite you to share your story. Help us put a face on the fight to Save Pell.
Whether you or someone you know has benefited from a Pell Grant (or if you simply support keeping college opportunity open to all), we invite you to share your story. Help us put a face on the fight to Save Pell.
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| Number | Date | Name | Tell the Senate why we can’t ... |
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| 2932 | Tue Apr 02 22:49:09 EDT 2013 | nicole ameliocasper | the pell grant allows so many to attend college ... if these funds are taken away..then you'll have plenty of people one welfare |
| 2931 | Mon Jan 07 21:46:44 EST 2013 | Crystal Carey | My self and my husband combined make 27k before taxes last year, this year we make even less. My pell grant was revoked because the government feels I can pay a minimum of 400 dollars each month for school. More.... |
| 2930 | Fri Nov 09 17:12:33 EST 2012 | Paul Huntelaar | Pell Grants keep college affordable. Education is the foundation of America's continued greatness. |
| 2929 | Mon Sep 24 21:31:12 EDT 2012 | Jean Knowlton | This is the wrong time to cut educational funding. There has never been a limit on the number of years a student could receive a Pell grant before and 6 years is not enough. Now people need more or different More.... |
| 2928 | Fri Aug 31 18:43:09 EDT 2012 | MuMiinah Saleem | You can't expect GOD to continue to Bless America, while people take undue advantage of those who trust them to share the wealth those less fortunate (the people who are meant to be helped). |
| 2927 | Fri Aug 31 00:37:25 EDT 2012 | Ngoc Pham | Dear senator!
I think your guy should increase more pell grant. All students need that money to gain their education. College is expensive; please, don't cut that benefit. |
| 2926 | Mon Aug 13 12:45:18 EDT 2012 | William Soper | I would not have been able to afford higher education if it weren't for my ability to receive the Pell Grant in full. |
| 2925 | Wed Aug 08 16:03:27 EDT 2012 | Marisa Billy | We as a country cannot sacrifice to lose Pell grants because no matter how hard working you are as a student, or how hard working your parents are, college, books, housing, etc is still unaffordable. More.... |
| 2924 | Fri Jun 29 00:17:30 EDT 2012 | JoAnne Holbert | Our children deserve the opportunity to go to college, all of our children should have that right. It should not just be open to the wealthy. You are making the United States a third world country. |
| 2923 | Mon Jun 25 14:08:02 EDT 2012 | Silverenia Kanoyton | I am a recipient of a Pell grant and it was the difference in my completing college. Presently I work with many students that receive Pell grants. I could cite many stories on the number of students this More.... |
| 2922 | Tue Feb 21 23:17:47 EST 2012 | Zachary Smith | Sacrificing the Federal Pell Grant would be devastating to the dreams of many young Americans seeking degrees in the future. For students who don't have any other financial support, these funds are a tremendous More.... |
| 2921 | Tue Feb 21 18:01:09 EST 2012 | Dyanne Jabain | Pell Grants should not be cut because that is the only means some students have of attending college. |
| 2920 | Tue Feb 21 16:39:29 EST 2012 | Laquetta Wigfall | |
| 2919 | Tue Feb 21 16:21:08 EST 2012 | Nikisha Ware | This will negatively impact our minority and low-income students population as they may be forced to forego their dream of attending college and professional schools. |
| 2918 | Tue Feb 21 14:27:22 EST 2012 | Antoinette Liles | As a first generation college student unable to afford a college education on my own, the Pell Grant took care of the bottom line, so that I could focus on the matter at hand-- gaining my piece of the More.... |
| 2917 | Tue Feb 21 14:25:33 EST 2012 | Antoinette Liles | As a first generation college student unable to afford a college education on my own, the Pell Grant took care of the bottom line, so that I could focus on the matter at hand-- gaining my piece of the More.... |
| 2916 | Tue Feb 21 11:02:24 EST 2012 | Brittany Robinson | As a recent college graduate (May 2010), the Federal Pell Grant was of great significance to me because it afforded me the opportunity to attend college. Growing up in a low-income family, my ranking More.... |
| 2915 | Thu Dec 15 11:22:05 EST 2011 | Robin Cruise | I can't afford college without them. I am so lucky to be getting an education because the government and other scholarships are helping me. to take away the pell grant is to take away my education. |
| 2914 | Thu Dec 15 08:26:45 EST 2011 | Amy Gutierrez | |
| 2913 | Thu Dec 15 00:52:39 EST 2011 | Cindy Gao | |
| 2912 | Tue Dec 13 16:54:11 EST 2011 | Quinton McArthur | The idea that Congress could eliminate (or reduce) the foundation of financial support for kids who have few alternative sources of funding is simply disgraceful. Pell Recipients go on to become More.... |
| 2911 | Tue Nov 08 18:49:39 EST 2011 | Irma Duenas | Our kids need education because they are the future men and women to this country. Every body has been working for a better country this only can be posibly with education. |
| 2910 | Wed Nov 02 17:37:40 EDT 2011 | Edith Martinez | |
| 2909 | Thu Oct 13 03:32:37 EDT 2011 | Carley Broder | Pell is crucial if we want to maintain any stature at all in the international community. Without it, many students' education will end at grade 12, without the depth of knowledge and cognitive skills More.... |
| 2908 | Sun Oct 02 11:34:24 EDT 2011 | Nickolas Winkler | The removal of the Pell Grant combined with outsourcing of dumb labor jobs to foreign countries will create an army of uneducated masses with nothing to lose. How does that sound? |
