Claim: "Forty years ago, a federal Pell Grant paid for nearly 80% of tuition, fees, room and board at a four-year college."
Fact-check: Sanders' latest claim about college costs only applies to public universities
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Lola Duffort;Kit Norton
Date published: 2019-06-26T00:00:00