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Delisle, Jason D. – American Enterprise Institute, 2020
Federal free-college policies are now at the center of the Democratic higher education agenda. Sen. Bernie Sanders helped move the idea into the mainstream during the 2016 presidential campaign, and other lawmakers have since worked to advance the policy in Congress. Joe Biden effectively put free college on the ballot in 2020 when he fully…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Federal Aid, Tuition
Delisle, Jason D.; Cooper, Preston – American Enterprise Institute, 2020
At the end of 2019, 43 million Americans owed over $1.5 trillion in federal student loans. The rapid increase in these balances over the past decade has led many to deem student debt a "crisis." Now, there is growing support among Democratic policymakers, and even some Republicans, to immediately cancel all or most of the federal…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Debt (Financial), Federal Aid, Paying for College
Pell Grant Mission Creep: How a Federal Program for Low-Income Families Expanded to the Middle Class
Delisle, Jason D.; Christensen, Cody – American Enterprise Institute, 2019
The federal Pell Grant was designed to help low-income students pay for college. But over the past two decades, a growing share of middle-income students have become eligible for the program. This was not policymakers' explicit goal. This report examines how the program came to increasingly provide students from middle-income families with grants,…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Grants, Federal Programs, Low Income Students