The poor have benefited from increases in federal Pell grants from $6 billion to $12 billion since 1998.
But the biggest beneficiaries have been middle-class families earning $40,000 to $100,000 a year. They get the most tax benefits and often qualify for financial aid based on both need and merit.
What did I tell you? More reason to:
Re-elect President Bush!!
posted on June 30, 2004 04:18:24 PM new
The lefties who are so quick to place the blame for just about everything this President does...including breathing....are being pretty darn quiet on this issue. hmmmmm...
taken from MSNBC
Kerry accused Bush and his economic policies of keeping 220,000 Americans from attending college in the last three years because of rising tuition.
He said increasing college costs were limiting the educational opportunities of Americans and adding to a plummeting living standard.....
"We need to make it possible for families to again be able to send their kids to school without breaking the bank," Kerry said, promising to pay for the programs by repealing tax cuts for Americans making more than $200,000 a year.
He said his programs would help counteract an average 28 percent increase in college tuitions since 2001, when Bush took office.
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Maybe one of his supporters might like to send this article to him - so he knows what's really been going on in the last three years - ...as opposed to how he's trying to make it appear.
...as opposed to how he's trying to make it appear.