U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., is helping to spearhead a bipartisan effort to raise the amount of the maximum Pell Grant award from $4,050 to $4,500.
Feingold, along with a bipartisan group of Senate colleagues, sent a letter to the chair and ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee strongly urging them to increase the maximum award to help lower income students receive a college education, reported WisPolitics.com.