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Duke, Amy-Ellen – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2008
Last Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the College Opportunity and Affordability Act in a vote of 354-58. This legislation, H.R. 4137, moves Congress one step closer to the long-awaited reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965, which governs federal student financial aid and other programs that promote access for low-income…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid
Strawn, Julie; Duke, Amy-Ellen – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2007
Two facts have become clear since passage of the Workforce Investment Act in 1998. First, when low-skilled individuals increase their basic skills, these higher skills pay off in the labor market in the form of higher employment and earnings. Second, these earnings increases are typically modest and fall short of what people need to become…
Descriptors: Credentials, Student Financial Aid, Adult Education, Job Training
Duke, Amy-Ellen; Strawn, Julie – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2007
On September 7, 2007, Congress enacted H.R. 2669, the College Cost Reduction and Access Act, which will raise the maximum Pell Grant to $5,400 over five years and halve interest rates on subsidized student loans. The act is part of the budget reconciliation process, which secured billions of dollars for increasing Pell Grants and for reducing…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Eligibility, Nontraditional Students, Grants
Duke, Amy-Ellen; Martinson, Karin; Strawn, Julie – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2006
This report examines one promising approach: state and local partnerships with business and industry to train low-wage workers and help them advance. For this analysis, the authors examined partnerships that: (1) Involve an investment of public funds and are managed by a public sector institution (business and industry also typically invest in…
Descriptors: Job Training, Labor Force Development, Wages, Government Role