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Changes to Pell Grant Mean Less Aid for Students Michele Norris talks with Brian Fitzgerald, staff director of the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, about the government's new formula for financial aid, which will reduce the Pell Grant program by $270 million and will prevent 84,000 college students from receiving any aid at all.

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Michele Norris talks with Brian Fitzgerald, staff director of the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, about the government's new formula for financial aid, which will reduce the Pell Grant program by $270 million and will prevent 84,000 college students from receiving any aid at all.