I'll be very surprised if (President Bush's recommendation) is successful. This is an election year. Do you think anyone, Republican or Democrat, is going to want to stand up and tell his electorate ... 'We got rid of a program for poor kids'? I don't think so. |
The law says that when you give out Perkins loan money, you start with the people who are the poorest and continue backward. It's not much money, but it does go to our neediest students. They would be left hanging without it. |
The situation has gotten worse and worse over the past 25 years. |