Ever since the days of LBJ, the country has gotten more and more involved in the subsidization of postsecondary education. The results have been disastrous — far higher costs and far less actual education. One might think that ending this policy blunder would be a high priority. Instead, we now have a plan that would extend it — “Workforce Pell” grants.

In today’s Martin Center article, Adam Kissel looks at the pros and cons.

Enter short-term, workforce-oriented Pell grants. This is a quite different kind of grant with a different goal: to get students into a credential and back out into the workforce as quickly as reasonably possible, or at........

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