{"id":10248,"date":"2021-11-22T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=10248"},"modified":"2021-11-30T13:56:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T18:56:37","slug":"u-s-house-passes-sen-ossoff-backed-expansion-of-pell-grant-program","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/u-s-house-passes-sen-ossoff-backed-expansion-of-pell-grant-program\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. House Passes Sen. Ossoff-Backed Expansion of Pell Grant Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C. \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong>Following a push by U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a provision to help more lower-income Georgians afford higher education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe kind of opportunity that access to public college and HBCUs without debt would make for the people of Georgia would be extraordinary,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-working-to-expand-pell-grant-program-help-georgians-access-public-colleges-and-hbcus\/\">voiced<\/a>&nbsp;strong support for the expansion of the Pell Grant Program to help make it possible for Georgians to obtain a college degree from public universities and HBCUs without taking on debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Build Back Better Act<\/em>&nbsp;includes a provision to expand the Federal Pell Grant Program and increase the maximum Pell Grant award per recipient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ossoff\/status\/1305570760841281536?s=20\">long championed<\/a>&nbsp;expanding Pell Grants to help students across Georgia afford the rising costs of tuition and other college-related expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2014&nbsp;Following a push by U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a provision to help more lower-income Georgians afford higher education. \u201cThe kind of opportunity that access to public college and HBCUs without debt would make for the people of Georgia would be extraordinary,\u201d&nbsp;Sen. Ossoff said. Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;voiced&nbsp;strong support for [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10248","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10250,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10248\/revisions\/10250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}