The number of Pell grants low income students can receive has been reduced from two to one, and essential AmeriCorps programs like Teach For America, the National Writing Project, and City Year have been defunded.
Carey makes a number of good points about the Pell program, but he makes one parenthetical assertion in his follow-up commentary on which, though perhaps commonly believed, actually turns out not to be all that accurate.
Under an earlier proposal, Ehrenberg said, the government would have restricted the number of years students could receive subsidized loans and siphoned the extra money into Pell grant funding.