Temple University graduate Ewan Johnson’s mother borrowed so he could go to college.
Growing up in a small town near Trenton, N.J., Ewan Johnson said there were birthdays when his mother couldn’t afford to buy presents for him and his sister, but she did her best by baking cookies. There were times whenshe worked overtime in her job helping people with disabilities.
I come from a low economic background. Going to college was literally my only way out, Johnson says.
But like many students, Johnson said, the maximum in Pell Grants he received wasn’t enough to pay for living expenses and tuition and fees atTemple University, where he earned a bachelor’s in strategic communications and political science.
He took out the $31,000 limit in …
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