Dreamers could access federal student aid under budget bill

Image:  Most of the billions of dollars of higher education investments in President Biden’s Build Back Better Act will go toward institutions and programs that already receive some sort of federal support. But if the legislation passes as it is currently written, the federal government will invest in a particular group of students that it hasn’t supported before—those who are undocumented. The current text of Democrats’ $1.75 trillion social spending bill includes a provision that...