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SC colleges can apply to offer new Pell Grants aimed at in-demand trades. So far, none have.

States Newsroom · October 5, 2026

COLUMBIA — Nursing and medical assistants, mechanics and commercial truck drivers, welders and construction equipment operators. These are among the South Carolina careers newly eligible for low-income, federal education grants. But so far, colleges and trade schools in the Palmetto State have yet to seek approval for…

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SC colleges can apply to offer new Pell Grants aimed at in-demand trades. So far, none have.

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