That would raise the maximum grant by about $1,000, to about 30percentt of the average private school tuition.
His plan would increase the maximum grant by 27percentt, from $5,500 to $7,000, but withhold half the amounts initially awarded and credited to a student's account.
The maximum grant was cut from £2,640 to £1,750.
They received $10,000, the maximum grant, from the Empire State Development Corporation.
The program provides a maximum grant this year of $3,300.
In 2010, the maximum grant is to rise to $5,550.
Mr. Clinton would spend an extra $716 million on Pell grants next year, raising the maximum grant to $3,500.
The maximum grant is £3,354, awarded if the household income is £25,000 or less.
Mr. Clinton had been insisting that the maximum grant, now $3,300, be increased to $3,800, but administration officials said that they could accept a $3,600 maximum.
The Obama administration has increased the maximum Pell Grant by $819 to $5,550.
The administrators of the Facebook group explained their support for Obama in specific terms -- the first piece of legislation introduced by the then-freshman senator from Illinois, they schooled me, was a bill that increases the maximum Pell Grant by 25percentto to $5,100, for low-income students.
