Sentence examples for increasing grants from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 — Congress gave final approval to a broad overhaul of federal student loan programs Friday, sharply cutting subsidies to lenders and increasing grants to needy students.

The study also proposed Congressional action, including increasing grants to states as an incentive to voluntarily submit their own law enforcement information to the database — to about $100 million a year, up from about $11 million this year.

— Colleen R The government should make it easier for students to get a post-secondary education, but it should do this by increasing grants, not by cutting the interest rates on student loans.

Bill Clinton, hobbled by impeachment but still far more popular at that point in his presidency than Mr. Bush is now, proposed a buffet of modest, centrist proposals, including cutting taxes for married couples, increasing grants for college and having Medicare pay for prescription drugs (which Mr. Bush's administration finally accomplished).

Seventy-six percent of the Swiss rejected joining the United Nations, though government and Parliament wanted to join; in recent years the Swiss have voted separately on issues like extra air pollution devices in motor vehicles, lawful abortion, the introduction of a value-added tax and increasing grants for universities and research.

Given the high proportion of HIV-affected children who qualify for these grants, increasing grant access among eligible families is a natural objective for many programs targeting orphans and vulnerable children.

Increasing grant reliability Yet all of this is useless without access to funds.

Increasing grant access Since it was first introduced in 1998, the number of children receiving the grant has increased more than tenfold.

This might not happen: unlike debt write-offs, increased grants boost the deficit.

Still another option would be to use the added revenue to increase grants for road maintenance in cities and states.

According to ActionAid, the US should increase grants to $67.5bn a year and the EU to $36.9bn.