Short-term disability is a type of government-run insurance or employer benefit that gives you income replacement for a temporary period when you are unable to work due to a covered illness, injury, ...

Short-term credentials are proliferating and growing more popular as students come to see them as quicker, cheaper routes to jobs than traditional degrees. But are these programs as inexpensive as ...

Set aside for low-income individuals, Pell Grants are the largest, most successful effort to open the unquestioned benefits of a college education to anyone. Without them, millions of Americans would ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matt Gandal examines how education can drive economic mobility. In an increasingly complex and rapidly evolving economy, more ...

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) today announced seven new priorities under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) for the Fiscal Year 2025 grant competition, earmarking ...

The Senate’s proposed higher education bill departed from the House version in many ways, but one provision remained almost completely untouched. That was workforce Pell, which would extend ...

For nearly 30 years -- since she was in high school -- Georgia Ghearing had worked as a chef for various catering companies in Chattanooga. But when the pandemic put her out of a job, she had some big ...

July 1 marks the official opening of a program that allows federal dollars to go toward short-term workforce training programs. But so far, just 12 states have created road maps for colleges to apply.

MENOMONIE, Wis. (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STOUT PRESS RELEASE) - University of Wisconsin-Stout will work closely with Wisconsin businesses to ensure a recently announced $2 million federal grant will ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A new expansion of the federal Pell Grant program could help more Tennesseans afford short-term workforce training. The Workforce Pell Grant allows eligible students to use federal ...