I will make more Pell Grant funding one of my highest priorities in the 107 th Congress. In addition to increasing student aid, colleges must do a better job of containing tuition costs. Since the early 1980s, the cost of going to college has increased at two or three times the rate of inflation. College should be affordable to all students, but the main responsibility to control costs rests with the postsecondary institutions themselves. We all want a better life for our children, and a college education is becoming increasingly necessary for the economic well-being of our children, and of the nation as a whole.
All students deserve the opportunity to earn a college diploma.