Budget, Grant Issues Still in Limbo
By Charles Dervarics
The U.S. Congress adjourned for the year without debating critical budget and student aid issues originally scheduled for approval in October.
Pell Grants, college work-study, TRIO programs and aid to HBCUs will continue to receive only temporary funding for fiscal 2003, which began in October, due to on-going budget debates in Congress. The new Congress, with Republicans in charge of both the Senate and House of Representatives, must take up these continuing funding issues soon after it convenes Jan. 7.
