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Rosa DeLauro: “The point I want to make is that cutting the Pell Grant funding... will reduce the number of low-income students…”

On the recordMarch 9, 2011
The point I want to make is that cutting the Pell Grant funding... will reduce the number of low-income students receiving bachelors degrees each year by about 61,000.
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Rosa DeLauro
Democratic · Connecticut

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DeLauro emphasizes the negative impact of Pell Grant cuts on low-income students' education.

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