{"id":97877,"date":"2026-02-11T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=97877"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:40:50","slug":"funding-cuts-shifts-in-aid-could-make-college-harder-to-afford-for-low-income-families-marcus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/02\/11\/funding-cuts-shifts-in-aid-could-make-college-harder-to-afford-for-low-income-families-marcus\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding cuts, shifts in aid could make college harder to afford for low-income families [Marcus]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/funding-cuts-financial-aid-college-affordability-low-income-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Funding cuts, shifts in aid could make college harder to afford for low-income families<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by\u00a0Jon Marcus<br \/>\n<em>Advocates worry that the promise of a higher education will soon drift further out of reach<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Now TRIO has come under the scrutiny of the Trump administration, which has already moved to cancel TRIO funding for some participating colleges (though this\u00a0was paused\u00a0in January by a federal court and remains in litigation) and proposes to\u00a0eliminate it altogether; letters from the Department of Education to those colleges show the money was cut off because the programs were considered part of diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, efforts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">At a time of\u00a0rising income inequality, it\u2019s one of several developments advocates worry are converging to make things even harder for lower-income Americans who want to go to and get through college \u2014 a group that already faces considerable challenges, and whose proportion of enrollment\u00a0has been falling\u00a0for a decade and a half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding cuts, shifts in aid could make college harder to afford for low-income families &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by\u00a0Jon Marcus Advocates worry that the promise of a higher education will soon drift further out of reach Now TRIO has come under the scrutiny of the Trump administration, which has already moved to cancel TRIO funding for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,115,57,71,3,74,7,560,279,480,293,66,206,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-leadership","category-learning-ecosystem","category-parents-guardians","category-participation","category-society","category-sociology","category-student-related","category-trends","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97879,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97877\/revisions\/97879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}