There’s no way – no way – I would’ve made it through my undergraduate and graduate programs without the help of Pell grants. Economically, it would’ve meant attending college in an “on-ramp/off-ramp” environment. So when Pell grant funding seems to be coming under the axe in the ridiculous deficit reduction talks, I worry for the thousands of Latino college students who are in the same boat I was in 20 years ago.
