As Illinois lawmakers continue their budget standoff, college students who rely on the state's Monetary Assistance Program, or MAP, are left in limbo.
That's according to James Applegate, director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education.
"The MAP students are the first casualties of this budget impasse. And of course they're the low-income students, the students that are the most vulnerable. Now some of our institutions, I know, plan to front the money for the students, in the hopes that they'll eventually get paid. Not all of them can afford to do that."
More than 125,000 students are eligible for MAP grants this year.
