{"id":6757,"date":"2009-03-30T09:42:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=6757"},"modified":"2009-03-30T09:43:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:43:59","slug":"amid-soaring-college-tuition-obama-budget-promises-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/03\/30\/amid-soaring-college-tuition-obama-budget-promises-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Soaring College Tuition Obama Budget Promises Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest033009\/2009_03_30_lotke.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest033009\/2009_03_30_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/media.kspr.com\/images\/College%20Tuition%203-1.jpg\" alt=\"college tuition\" \/>With the crashing economy making life difficult for many Americans, college students in particular are finding fewer ways to make ends meet. Tuition has risen dramatically over the past decade: in California, the average college tuition rose 37% between 2000-2007, and in 2008, it rose a whopping 9%. Obviously wages haven&#8217;t kept up with this dramatic increase. But neither have financial aid grants. Now, college students across the country may see small relief in President Obama&#8217;s new budget, which aims at dramatically increasing the number of students eligible for Pell grants. Government Pell grants were originally designed to cover 80% of the cost of going to college. But given the sharp rise in tuition, they now cover barely a third of the costs. Obama&#8217;s budget increases the amount of each grant, and also makes funding mandatory. At a time when college graduates are desperately looking for jobs that just aren&#8217;t materializing, doing so with a smaller debt burden may ease the economic pain of these trying times. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Eric Lotke, research director at the Campaign for America\u2019s Future<\/em>. For more information, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the crashing economy making life difficult for many Americans, college students in particular are finding fewer ways to make ends meet. Tuition has risen dramatically over the past decade: in California, the average college tuition rose 37% between 2000-2007, and in 2008, it rose a whopping 9%. Obviously wages haven&#8217;t kept up with this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}