The lack of an increase in four years clearly has hurt students, says Luke Swarthout, a higher education advocate at U.S. PIRG. “As a result, students have had to make up the gap between tuition and aid with more work and larger loans,” he says.
Pell is one of few domestic programs to receive an increase in the Democrats’ 2007 budget bill, which covers the Education Department and other agencies still without funding for the rest of the government’s fiscal year. To help pay for the Pell increase, Democratic leaders are seeking a one-year ban on earmarks, the pet projects that members of Congress traditionally add to government spending bills.
--Charles Dervarics
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