The Pell Grant – a need-based higher education grant from the U.S. Department of Education that, unlike a loan, does not need to be repaid – lies at the heart of the federal financial aid system.

Federal bill H.R. 1 enacted an expansion of Pell Grants to include short-term, career-focused training programs. These Workforce Pell Grants offer need-based aid to low-income students for programs ...

The headline writes itself and the industry groups are celebrating: Pell Grants are coming to CDL schools. The American ...

A long-awaited policy change inked into last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will soon allow students to use federal financial aid for job-training programs that take just a couple of months to ...

For many students and their families, federal student aid is key for college access. And yet, the Trump administration’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 calls for significant cuts to higher ...

The Federal Pell Grant Program — the flagship federal financial aid program that aids six to seven million students annually — is projected by the Congressional Budget Office to experience a $5.4 ...

Pell Grants, the federal financial aid program that helps low-income Americans afford college and has enjoyed broad bipartisan support, are projected to have big funding shortfalls that could ...

Years of inconsistent funding for the Pell Grant and state budget cuts played a role in a nearly half-million drop in the number of Black students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities over the ...

But college tuition has risen at roughly twice the rate of inflation during the past two decades, and federal student debt climbed 500% to US$1.6 trillion during that same period. The Biden ...