<p>The solution would have been to RAISE Pell Grants to track the rise in poverty rates.</p>
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<p>The numbers for Pell Grants have been keeping pace pretty nicely with the raise in education costs of recipients of Pell grants. Again, refer back to the web site I gave - it lists data from the past decade showing that the grants are going up about the same rate as the ACTUAL educational costs of recipients. During the same time period the numbers of actual recipients has also been rising steadily. While it would be nice to think that everyone living below the poverty level would want to go to college, the truth is probably different, don’t you think? </p>
<p>Of course, we could be making a case that we need to be sending more low income kids to private four year kids and funding that - but that seems like an entirely different issue, and certainly one we’ve discussed in the past a great deal.</p>
<p>I’m curious how everyone here feels about school vouchers for k-12 education.</p>