<p>^ Unless you’re at a very cheap CC, even a full Pell isn’t going to cover much more than tuition- no R&B, etc. A full Pell at my state U covers roughly 12 credits (not per semester- total). So unless you’re referring to state funding, most “tax payer money” is going towards tuition.</p>
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<p>Right…I wasn’t talking about just Pell. And I wasn’t even talking about the current gov’t aid offers that are out there in different states.</p>
<p>My point was that there really can’t be an expectation that taxpayers should fund “going away” to school.</p>
<p>At most, tax-payers might be expected to help low-income kids with fed grants, state grants, and loans to pay for tuition, fees, and books.</p>