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  • How Poor Students Subsidize Unworthy College Sports

    As parents and students struggle to keep up with rising college tuition and take on greater burdens of debt, universities are being challenged to justify the ballooning athletic fees they tack on to the bill.

  • Obama’s Republican Student-Loan Plan

    On July 1, the interest rate on new Stafford subsidized federal college loans is scheduled to double. Rather than trying to maintain the current rate, Congress should take this opportunity to restructure student aid, directing more money toward those with the greatest need.

  • Help 9 Million Students Now or Pay Medicaid Later

    A myth won’t educate a nation.

  • When Sequestration Becomes Devastation

    To really understand what sequestration means, look to next year.

  • Pell Grants Shouldn’t Pay for Remedial College

    Everyone, from President Barack Obama to U.S. Representative Paul Ryan to Bill Gates, seems to have an idea for improving the Federal Pell Grant Program for higher education.

  • Colleges Soak Poor Students to Funnel Aid to Rich

    U.S. colleges such as Boston University are using financial aid to lure rich students while shortchanging the poor, forcing those most in need to take on heavy debt, a report found.

  • Pell Grant Cuts Hurt For-Profit Colleges After 8-Fold Rise

    For-profit colleges, led by Apollo Group Inc .’s University of Phoenix, will be disproportionately hurt by cuts in the $30 billion Pell Grant program for low- income students.

  • Castro Predicts Strong Win Among Latinos for Obama (Transcript)

    San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro predicted President Barack Obama will win at least 70 percent of the Hispanic vote, describing Republican challenger Mitt Romney as “the most conservative candidate that the Latino community has ever seen.” Castro, the convention’s keynote speaker on Sept. 4, was interviewed today at a Bloomberg/Washington Post breakfast in Charlotte, North Carolina.

  • Jarrett Says Obama Wants Overhaul of Tax Code (Transcript)

    Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama, said at a Bloomberg breakfast in Charlotte, North Carolina that the president would work with the business community to overhaul the tax code in a second term, as Democrats today kick off their national convention that aims to propel his re-election bid.

  • A Smart Way to End the Stupidity of Sequestration

    There are two main problems with sequestration. The first is that the $1.1 trillion in budget cuts happen in an idiotic, across-the-board fashion. Think farm subsidies are less valuable than medical research, and thus should take a bigger cut? Too bad. Sequestration is too dumb to tell the difference.

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