Congress keeps expanding access to the Pell Grant program that helps low-income students afford higher education without providing sufficient funding to cover its ballooning costs.
The latest move came in Friday’s proposal from the Department of Education to implement a provision in the 2025 GOP tax-and-spending law allowing students looking to enroll in short-term workforce training programs to qualify for the grants. That legislation also included $10.5 billion to avert a looming shortfall by the end of 2025.
While the expansion to cover workforce training programs isn’t seen as fueling a major increase in costs, the Pell Grant program already ...