Doubling Down on Doubling the Pell Grant

As the nation rebuilds from the economic downturn brought on by COVID-19, current and incoming students will require additional financial support to help pay for college. One clear option is to double down on the one mechanism we already have in federal law designed to target funding to low-income students by doubling the maximum Pell Grant award available to students. Pell Grants are the foundation of our national investment in higher education, and they help pave the way for nearly 7 million low- and middle-income students to attend and complete college. However, the current maximum Pell Grant covers less than one-third of the cost of attending a four-year college. To boost the grant’s purchasing power and help make college an option for more students who are currently in crisis, Congress should invest in and protect the Pell Grant program.

More than 1,200 organizations and institutions support doubling the Pell Grant.

Add your voice to the chorus of support,and let everyone know you support #DoublePell!

In THE NEWS

5-9-33The Wall Street Journal Is Wrong About Pell Grants4-13-22 Biden Wants to Double the Maximum Pell Grant. What Difference Would That Make?4-9-22 How Can We Fix the College Affordability Problem?11-4-21 Access to Higher Education is the Gateway, Degree Completion is the Goal. Doubling the Pell Grant Will Help10-18-21 Biden and Congress Must Double the Pell Grant8-16-21 Republicans are Wrong; Doubling the Pell Grant Is Good Policy8-5-21 Building a Campaign to Double Pell7-21-21 Jesuit colleges are committed to serving low-income students. If Joe Biden doubled the Pell Grant, we could serve more.7-21-21 News Byte: Jennifer Griffiths, Ph.D., Shares Her Pell Grant Story7-14-21 How to make good colleges want low-income students7-13-21 Now Is The Time To #DoublePell7-2-21 College students are struggling and that's why doubling the Pell Grant will help | Opinion6-25-21 Doubling Pell Has Broad Support, but Is It Attainable?6-17-21 Democrats Propose to Double Pell Grant Over Five Years5-19-21 Report: Doubling the Pell Grant Could Serve as Precursor to Free College2-16-21 The economic case for doubling the Pell Grant1-30-21 The quickest and most effective way Biden can help millions of Americans go to college11-20-20 Will Biden be able to double the Pell Grant?10-15-20 New Students at U.S. Colleges Drop, Worsening Campus Crisis8-4-20 OPINION: The dire need for significant federal investment in U.S. colleges and their students7-21-20 A New Call to Increase Pell7-14-20 Doubling the Pell Grant is crucial for the future of our students and the economy6-17-20 Congress Needs to Prevent A Flight from College5-21-20 John B. King Jr. Testimony On FY 2021 Funding Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies5-18-20 TICAS Joint Pell Letter5-1-20 Amid COVID-19, Doubling Pell Grants is the Next Urgent Need for HBCUs, Says UNCF7-8-19 Brewing Battle Over Pell Grants

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Speak Directly with Experts Working to Make this Happen

Lindsey Tepe
Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU)
ltepe@aplu.org
Julie Peller
Higher Learning Advocates
jpeller@higherlearningadvocates.org
Mamie Voight
IHEP
mvoight@ihep.org
Wayne Taliaferro
Lumina
wtaliaferro@luminafoundation.org

Reid Setzer
The Education Trust
rsetzer@edtrust.org
Michele Streeter
The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS)
mstreeter@ticas.org
Lodriguez Murray
UNCF
Lodriguez.Murray@uncf.org