Keeping with the fraternity ritual of presenting readers with meaningless numbers the Washington Post told readers that President Obama's proposed expansion of the Pell Grant program will increase spending by $40 billion over the next decade. This number is completely meaningless to virtually all readers of the Washington Post -- if you added or removed a zero, most would not notice the difference -- yet the Post refuses to make the simple comparison that would give the number some meaning to its readers.
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