The Pell Grant program for low-income college students was designed for a tidy academic world of 15-week semesters, credit ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A proposal to brand a new type of federal Pell Grant as “Trump Grants” has sparked pushback from Rhode Island lawmakers who want the program to retain the name of its creator — ...

The Pell Grant program has been the foundation for federal financial aid since 1972. Its mission was simple: provide low-income students with a fair chance at higher education. Despite making enormous ...

WASHINGTON — An unexpected surge in college enrollment has created an $18 billion shortfall in the Pell Grant program, the biggest in its history. An administration official told The Associated Press ...

New projections for the federal Pell Grant program now estimate a $2.7 billion funding shortfall later this year. About 40% of college students rely on Pell Grants, a type of aid available to ...

President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill reinvests in the Pell Grant program, the largest source of federal financial aid for undergraduate students. However, the bill will prevent students with ...

The U.S. Senate on Monday began considering a budget plan for the 2005 fiscal year that would make eliminating the multibillion-dollar shortfall in the Pell Grant program’s budget a key legislative ...

College advocates breathed a sigh of relief when the U.S. Department of Education said the Trump Administration’s “federal funding freeze” would not affect federal Pell Grants and student loans.