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The U.S. Department of Education gave out $18.2 billion in Pell Grants for low-income students, up from $6.2 billion in the 1999-2000 school year, data show.
Best Value Colleges: Can getting a degree be affordable? 2010
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An endorsement from Senator Pell is hardly encouraging science-wise.
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But the federal government gave out $28.2 billion in Pell grants to students in the 2009-10 school year, almost $10 billion more than the previous year.
Tuition, Pell Grants Rise in Tandem Stephanie Banchero 2010
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Pell is from a poor preacher's family and has watched her mother suffer for years under the burden of caring for an ever-increasing number of children.
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Pell is a close observer of the mores of relatives such as an aunt who sold some of her diamonds to create and publish a version of the Bible that “excluded references to eating meat since she was a vegetarian.”
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Pell is serving a life sentence for the brutal murders of the wealthy Croyton family in Carmel years earlier -- a crime mirroring those perpetrated by Charles Manson in the 1960s.
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In 2009-10, 7.7 million students received $28.2 billion in Pell Grants - an increase of almost $10 billion from the year before, according to a companion College Board report, "Trends in Student Aid."
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But the federal government gave out $28.2 billion in Pell grants to students in the 2009-10 school year, almost $10 billion more than the previous year.
Wonkbook: 57% worry about mortgage; midterm might cost $4 billion; to triangulate or not to triangulate? Ezra Klein 2010
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In 2009-10, 7.7 million students received $28.2 billion in Pell Grants - an increase of almost $10 billion from the year before, according to a companion College Board report, "Trends in Student Aid."
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Pell is better reporter than analyst and, as such, offers few insights into her world that go beyond the banalities of psychotherapy.
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