{
  "id": 19388,
  "url": "https://www.the74million.org/article/congress-made-it-easier-to-pay-for-college-it-must-keep-that-promise",
  "title": "Opinion: Congress Made it Easier to Pay for College. It Must Keep That Promise",
  "summary": "Right now, 15.5 million undergraduate students around the country are getting ready to start or return to college. Seven million of them have one thing in common: relying on a Pell Grant to help pay for their higher education. But the grant program is facing a $15 billion funding shortfall that will undermine college access […]",
  "authors": "Kim Cook",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-08-13T16:30:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-14T05:10:49.168Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-74-education-ai",
  "source_name": "The 74 (education AI)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.the74million.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19388",
  "original_url": "https://www.the74million.org/article/congress-made-it-easier-to-pay-for-college-it-must-keep-that-promise",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}