Your retirement comes before your children's tuition. That's because there's no financial aid for retirement, and there's still a good deal available for college.

It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.

Nontraditional students often have the misconception that aid is intended only for high school students entering college. Luckily, that's not the case.