Poor would be hard hit by proposed California budget cuts
Also potentially on the chopping block is CalGrants, a financial assistance program that offers cash grants to lower- and middle-income college students each year. The governor’s proposal would eliminate the 77,000 new grants awarded each year at a cost of $180 million, but that saving would eventually grow to more than $900 million as students graduated and the program was phased out.
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by Eric Bailey and Patrick McGreevy, The Los Angeles Times.