{"id":100,"date":"2004-11-20T10:28:01","date_gmt":"2004-11-20T10:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=100"},"modified":"2004-11-20T10:28:01","modified_gmt":"2004-11-20T10:28:01","slug":"cuts-in-student-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Cuts in student aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More damage from the omnibus spending bill: a $300 billion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegedems.com\/blog\/archives\/000271.php\">cut in student aid<\/a>, changing eligibility rules for Pell grants in such a way that nearly 100,000 students will lose all or part of their grants. Republicans attempted to pass this rule change last year, but Democrats fought them back. Now they&#8217;ve brought it back as part of the budget package.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/2004\/schools\/0410\/22\/a03-309337.htm\">Tuition has been rising<\/a> since Bush came into office, as state budgets tighten and more costs are passed on to students. I know this country used to want an educated population. I fear the people in power now prefer to keep everyone poor and ignorant.<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/suburbanguerrilla.blogspot.com\/2004\/11\/but-i-understand-military-is-hiringwho.html\">Suburban Guerilla<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More damage from the omnibus spending bill: a $300 billion cut in student aid, changing eligibility rules for Pell grants in such a way that nearly 100,000 students will lose all or part of their grants. Republicans attempted to pass this rule change last year, but Democrats fought them back. Now they&#8217;ve brought it back as part of the budget package. Tuition has been rising since Bush came into office, as state budgets tighten and more costs are passed on to students. I know this country used to want an educated population. I fear the people in power now prefer <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=100\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-econ"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-1C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}