Why is parent income taken into account for many post-secondary education financial assistance programs?

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Just because you have wealthy parents doesn’t mean that you have access to that money. To me it would make more sense to only take into account the amount of money they are putting towards your education.

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Rich people can afford to pay lawmakers to get laws written a certain way, and up until very very recently, it was considered shameful to have a child who was out as LGBT, and rich people’s defense against that shame was something called “cutting off” their children from funds. You cannot “cut off” your child’s pell grant.

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