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The Small Business Administration rushed to deliver $1.2 trillion in emergency grants and loans during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, and while that spending likely played a major role in cushioning the economy and limiting the damage from the rapid-onset recession, more than $200 billion of it may have been lost due to waste, fraud and abuse, according to a new report from the agency’s Office of the Inspector General. Most of the fraud occurred in the two largest pandemic-era pro

An overhaul to how federal student aid is calculated could mean Nebraska families with farms or small businesses are expected to contribute more for their student to go to college.

Pandemic-era aid programs, and should those types of programs should be made more permanent, going forward, so that you can account for those swings in the prices of food and things like that? >> we don't live in a silo, right? what happens to an individual in a way affects all of us as a community because yes, it kept people out of poverty, but it maintained the economy. usda has has the multiplier effect that snap pass on the economy. individuals are taking that home, purchasing items in their local grocery stores, which is affecting the food production. it means farmers benefit, retailers b...

Overhauling the federal financial system and simplifying the Free Application for Federal Student Aid is a significant undertaking for the Education Department. Although the agency is making progress on the project, officials said this week the application might not be ready by Oct. 1.

The share of Massachusetts students who take out loans to pay for public higher education has exploded in the past two decades while the combined pressure of inflation and a lack of investment have hamstrung the impact of state-funded financial aid, according to a new report.