Putting the "Pell" in Pell Grants

Paying for College
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<p>I enjoyed this “Personal Perspective on Obama’s Pell Grant Infusion” in “The Choice” in today’s *New York Times *. ) See [A</a> Personal Perspective on Obama’s Pell Grant Infusion - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/pell/]A”>A Personal Perspective on Obama's Pell Grant Infusion - The New York Times))</p>

<p>It’s about former Rhode Island six-term senator Claiborne D. Pell, a Democrat who died last year at age 90 and was the impetus behind the grant that bears his name.</p>

<p>According to his grandson, quoted in “The Choice,” the late senator would approve of President Obama’s proposed automatic increases to the grant but would regret that it still barely make a dent in most current college costs.</p>

<p>(As my 7th-grader always says, “Ya think??” :wink: )</p>

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<p>Thanks for this!
I got a Pell Grant way back in the 1970’s. I was very thankful as I was paying my way through college. It is really a shame that the value of Pell Grants has shrunk so markedly.</p>