Federal student aid shouldn’t be a blank check for state budgets

Author Ben Miller explains how states and institutions can more responsibly spend financial aid dollars to make higher education broadly accessible.

The United States will never successfully address rising college prices if the federal government continues to go it alone on higher education funding.

Each year, the U.S. Education Department hands out around $120 billion in grants and loans to students. This financial aid makes it possible for students to seize educational opportunities that would otherwise be out of their grasp. But for colleges — and especially states — this federal aid is a blank check.

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