re: #391 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Very few students get a totally free ride. Pell grants are at best a few hundred dollars, and scholarships are also not too generous, when compared to current tuition, room and board rates. Loans and work-study jobs make up the difference.

The idea that poor kids get a free ride from the federal government is BS. Often, states and universities provide financial assistance.

30 years ago my Pell grant paid for tuition and textbooks. It doesn’t go that far today.