Feingold Calls for More Assistance to Help Disadvantaged College Students
Posted at 10:59:57 on April 7, 2004
Senator Russ Feingold's office put out a release today (read it here) regarding LEAP funding, and how it could help provide grant aid to college students.
U.S. Senator Russ Feingold is pushing for funding to help provide disadvantaged undergraduate and graduate students with financial aid. Feingold, along with a group of his Senate colleagues, wrote a letter to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education requesting an increase in funds for the Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership (LEAP) program. LEAP funding has helped states provide grant aid to needy students since 1972. The LEAP program is the only federal-state partnership program and has no administrative costs, meaning every dollar goes to the students.
"While the President's budget proposes to eliminate LEAP, the Senate has long supported LEAP," the letter read. "Without this important federal incentive, many states would never have established need-based financial aid programs, and many states would not continue to maintain such programs."
- Trae
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