Mississippi State University students walk to class on the Starkville campus. Federal lawmakers are considering changes to a longstanding financial aid program that could impact the amount of money ...

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 ...

The Federal Pell Grant Program, overseen by the Department of Education, offers non-loan funding to students from low-income backgrounds attending college. The current maximum amount a student can ...

The "One Big, Beautiful Bill" created a new Workforce Pell Grant program that expands federal aid eligibility to students pursuing short licensing and certificate programs. Other eligibility ...

WASHINGTON DC — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has announced that she is introducing legislation to make college more affordable for working families. According to a news release from the Senator’s ...

The Texas Tribune - Nearly half a million Texas students stand to get less help paying for college because of aggressive cuts federal lawmakers are considering to a critical financial aid program. The ...

wouldn't be able to absorb extra costs that this bill would charge them with. Students who rely on the Pell Grant to help them pay for college could be affected by this budget bill. Pell Grants give ...

ATLANTA — Thousands of Georgia college students are leaving millions of dollars in free financial aid on the table every year. Pell Grants help students from low-income families pay for school, but ...

The Bush administration proposed new initiatives to reform the federal Pell Grant system earlier this month, limiting the amount of time a college student can receive Pell grants in order to provide ...