How Trump's budget would affect low-income students, historically black colleges
Source: abc
By Karma Allen
May 31, 2017, 12:28 PM ET
PHOTO: President Donald Trump shows the signed executive order supporting black colleges and universities in the Oval Office of the White House, Feb. 28, 2017.Aude Guerrucci-Pool/Getty Images
President Trumps proposed budget would cut financial aid funding for thousands of low-income college students, particularly those attending a historically black university, according to various analyses of the plan.
The presidents proposed budget for the 2018 fiscal year, released last week, would drastically reduce funding for federal work-study, Pell Grant reserves and student loan subsidies, while directing more dollars toward defense spending, according to the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), an education advocacy group that has raised nearly $5 billion in scholarships for minority students since its inception over 70 years ago.
If approved in its initial form, the budget would cut federal student aid by more than $143 billion over the next decade, the organization estimates, while the Department of Education's overall budget would see a cut of 13.6 percent.
Minority and low-income students, as well as those attending historically black colleges and universities, are going to be in a weaker position than they've ever been in if the presidents budget is approved by Congress, according to UNCF president and CEO Michael Lomax.
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So, this is how Trump "supports" colleges. good photo op is all.
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sandensea
(21,526 posts)The worst of it is that many of the affected, are rooting for it because they think it will hurt minorities more than themselves.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)funneling even more taxpayer money into the hands of the 1% since they are the ones who own most of the stocks in defense companies.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)was embarrassing and 100% predictable...
atreides1
(16,046 posts)That Trump's definition of "support", translates to fuck the poor, the middle class, the elderly, and people of color!
Look at all of those smiling idiots, selling out for nothing more then a photo op with that orange faced shit gibbon!!!