Those Are the Kind of Things You're Thinking About Long Term Social Policy, Right?

It was added into the 19 94 budget amendments by republicans in congress as part of an overall compromise on the budget package when bill clinton was about to get. And so it was put in as a way of saying, all right, you know, republicans are demanding this will make felons ineligible for pell grants. People who are felons who get out of prison are precisely the kind of people you want to go to collegee.