Statements and announcements from The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs:
The Hope Center Receives Lumina Foundation Grant to Strengthen Federal Policy for Student Basic Needs (December 2025)
Dismantling the Department of Education Is Dismantling Students’ Dreams (November 2025)
Statement on the U.S. Department of Education’s Decision to End the Basic Needs Grant (November 2025)
- Statement on USDA’s Decision Not to Spend Emergency SNAP Funds During the Shutdown (October 2025)
- Aligned Data Collection on Student Basic Needs and Financial Wellness with Trellis Strategies (September 2025)
- The Hope Center Joins Forces with Kentucky to Scale Student Basic Needs Support (September 2025)
- The Hope Center Statement on the House Budget Reconciliation Bill Cutting Student Aid (April 29, 2025)
- Statement on Executive Order Aimed at Eliminating the U.S. Department of Education (March 20, 2025)
- Statement on Mass Layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education (March 13, 2025)
- Hope Center Awarded Grants to Investigate Policy Solutions and Investments for Reducing Student Basic Needs Insecurity (September 2024)
Archive:
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Archive
- Statement on State Legislation Attacking Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education (May 8, 2023)
- Statement on the Biden Administration’s FY 2024 Budget Proposal (March 10, 2023)
- Statement on the FY 2023 Government Funding Omnibus (December 21, 2022)
- Hope Center Awarded Grant to Improve Federal and State Policy Solutions for Student Basic Needs Insecurity (November 29, 2022)
- Statement on the Biden Administration’s Debt Cancellation Announcement (August 24, 2022)
- Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Abortion Rights (June 2022)
- Statement on Basic Needs Grant, SSARP, and FAFSA Data-Use Guidance (January 20, 2022)