And so I significantly increased the Pell Grant program by tens of billions of dollars.

WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference on the 2012 Budget

The Chronicle of Higher Education has devoted considerable attention recently to the federal Pell Grant program.

FORBES: Who Receives the Subsidy Really Does Matter

The negative spillover effects of the Pell Grant program are hard to measure but I think real.

FORBES: For Whom the Pell Tolls

And one of the things that we want to do is on the Pell grant program, for example.

WHITEHOUSE: Online Town Hall

My sidekick Andrew Gillen (my financial aid guru) and I have always made one exception to that criticism: the Pell Grant Program.

FORBES: For Whom the Pell Tolls

We protected programs for student loans through the Pell Grant program, for example. (Applause.) We protected programs for hungry kids.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama��s Town Hall in Cannon Falls, Minnesota

We still need to expand more the Pell Grant program and make it both accessible to more people and raise the amount of tuition.

WHITEHOUSE: Your Interview with the President

The take-up rate on the Pell Grant program has skyrocketed.

WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference on the 2012 Budget

Democrats blasted Romney for supporting a student loan interest rate extension when he'd previously backed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's proposed cuts to the federal Pell Grant program.

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We want to increase the amount of the Pell grant so that it catches up with inflation and we want to -- we want more young people to be eligible for the Pell grant program.

WHITEHOUSE: Online Town Hall

In our current budget, we are calling for mandatory increases in Pell Grant programs to keep up with inflation, improvements in the Perkins Loan Program.

WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall in Los Angeles