State financial-aid money dries up before many low-income college students get help
“Nearly every state has some form of need-based tuition assistance for low-income students. Across the country, millions of students apply to states each year for aid. But Meredith Kolodner, higher education reporter at The Hechinger Report, found that hundreds of thousands of students who qualify for aid never receive it because the state’s simply run out of money. Last year alone, more than 900,000 didn’t receive the aid they applied for. And in 10 states, more than half of the eligible students who apply don’t get any money.”