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Music Unites Campus Representative Program Gives Back by Mentoring NYC Students

Michelle Edgar | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: The Bailen Brothers, Sophia Melon, Columbia University, Demi Lovato, Music Education, New York City, Choir, Music Unites, Campus Progress, Impact News
Michelle Edgar

Music education is an essential aspect of child development. However, because of budget cuts, especially in our inner city schools, music education is among the first things to go.

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The History Of The Pell Grant In Pictures

Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: History of the Pell Grant Info Graphic, Campus Progress Pell Grant, Pell Grant Infographic, Campus Progress, Pell Grants, College News

Campus Progress has handily put together an illustrated history of the diminishing Pell Grant. Can you believe that in 1972, the Pell Grant covered a...

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Hangover Cures From Around The World

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: College Students, Healthy Eating, Big Girls Small Kitchen, French, Coffee, The Hangover, Drinking, Teenagers, World News, Education, College, Recipes, Germany, Cooking, College News, Alcohol, Food, Schools, Italian Food, Irish, Campus Progress, Small Kitchen College, International, College News
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The best remedy for treating a hangover is to detox with lots of water and replenish on vitamins with clean (unprocessed) foods but every culture has its cure.

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Bill Clinton's Warning On The Debt Ceiling Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Federal Deficit, Debt Ceiling, Spending Cuts, Simpson-Bowles, Debt Negotiations, Former President, Tax Hikes, Campus Progress, President Clinton, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday that any deficit-cutting deal worked out between Democrats and Republicans shouldn't take e...

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Three Printers Refuse LGBT Student Publication, Citing F-Word, Images of Cross-Dressing

| David Spett | Posted 06.27.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Fusion, Kent State, Campus Progress, The Midwest, Kent State LGBT Magazine, College News

Three printing companies have refused to publish the spring edition of Fusion, a Campus Progress-sponsored LGBT magazine at Kent State University, cit...

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Beyond The Dining Hall: All About Pancakes

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, Breakfast, Healthy Living, Recipes, College, Big Girls Small Kitchen, Cooking, Kitchen, Food, Green Living, Campus Progress, Brunch, Pancakes, College News
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The pancake-waffle debate has not been as widely publicized or polarized as the Great Cake-Pie Schism that has defined the past decade. And while my f...

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Weekly Audit: The Shocking Truth About Taxes

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Teachers, Tax, YASHA LEVINE, Texas, Progressive, Texas Observer, Campus Progress, Debt, RESOURCE GENERATION, Jamelle Bouie, Dave Gilson, Working in These Times, Layoffs, Tapped, PETE REDINGTON, ABBY RAPOPORT, Student Loan, JULIE MARGETTA MORGAN, KRISTY LEISSLE, The Nation, Farm, Mother Jones, YES! Magazine, Politics News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The super rich are different from you and me. For one thing, their tax rates are lower. According to I...

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What A For-Profit Education Looks Like (INFOGRAPHIC)

Posted 06.09.2011

Read More: An Education in for-Profit Education, For Profit Colleges, Susie Cagle, Campus Progress, For Profit College Infographic, Infographic, College News

What does a for-profit education really look like? Find out below, courtesy of our friends at Campus Progress. ...

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Weekly Mulch: The EPA Can Regulate Carbon, For Now

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Grist, ORION MAGAZINE, The Colorado Independent, Earthworks, Campus Progress, Carbon Regulation, Senate, Epa, Natural Gas, Omb, Composting, UN Foundation, SOLAR DONE RIGHT, House, American Prospect, Carbon Emissions, Earth Island Journal, Clean Energy, MORAL GROUND, Green News
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by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger This week, the House voted to shut down the carbon regulation program at the Environmental Protection Agency...

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Weekly Audit: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing--The Myth of Fiscal Conservatism

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Obama, Gop, College, Pension, Tim Murphy, Tax, Tara Lohan, Steve Benen, Deficit, Union, Cuts, General Electric, Campus Progress, Debt, Washington Monthly, Congress, Fiscal Conservatism, ALIYA KARIM, Tapped, DEFINED CONTRIBUTION, Tax Cut, Higher Education, University, Unemployment, Iowa, Transparency, SARAH BABBAGE, Rich, Mother Jones, Defined Benefit, Alternet, Politics News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Fashionable pundits like to say that the Republican Party has shifted its focus from "social conservat...

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Weekly Diaspora: Big Business Dictates Immigration Policy--At Workers' Expense

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russell Pearce, Department of Homeland Security, Bracero, Immigration Reform, Colorlines, Campus Progress, Immigration, New America Media, Arizona, Utah, In These Times, Texas Observer, Guest Worker Program, Seiu, Politics News
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By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Arizona's business leaders, frustrated by the deep financial fallout of increasingly radical immigr...

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Weekly Audit: Massive Protest In Wisconsin Shows Walker's Overreach

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Rights, Collective Bargaining, Tractorcade, Poll, The Nation, Firefighter, Republican, Alternet, Steve Benen, Senator, Broke, Scott Walker, Protest, E.J. Dionne, Bank, M&I, Union, Jamelle Bouie, Budget, Washington Monthly, Wisconsin Democratic Party, Election, Enthusiasm Gap, Tapped, Campus Progress, Wisconsin, Koch, JoAnne Kloppenburg, SIMEON TALLEY, Madison, Roger Bybee, Farmer, Working in These Times, Recall, John Nichols, Inequality, Senate, Politics News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger About 100,000 people gathered in Madison, Wisconsin to protest Gov. Scott Walker's new anti-collective...

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Weekly Diaspora: Arizona Pushing Undocumented to Surrounding States

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New America Media, Immigration, Economy, ARIZONA PLUS, Colorlines, Arizona, In These Times, Oklahoma, Campus Progress, Immigration Reform, Utah, Politics News
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By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger A combination of stricter immigration enforcement and reduced economic opportunities in Arizona has...

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Weekly Diaspora: The 2012 Budget and Our Unsecured Border

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Reform, American Independent, Immigration Impact, Campus Progress, 2012 Budget, House, Dhs, Border, Obama, Immigration, Border Security, Care2, Alternet, Politics News
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By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger President Obama is taking heat from all sides this week for his 2012 budget proposal, which propose...

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Weekly Audit: Police Defy Order to Clear Protesters from Wisconsin Capital

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Democracy Now!, Anonymous, David Koch, Collective Bargaining, Police, Civil Rights, Middle Class, Sanitation Worker, Ddos, Layoff, Kelda Helen Roys, Dc, Mother Jones, Matthew Rothschild, Scott Walker, Protest, Dues, Rally, Andy Kroll, Union, Quorum, Illinois, New York, Martin Luther King, Budget, Solidarity, The Progressive, George Warner, Care2, The Uptake, Colorlines, Campus Progress, Wisconsin, Madison, Amy Goodman, Jessica Pieklo, Jon Erpenbach, Senate, Economy, Indiana, Politics News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger On Monday afternoon, the Capitol Police in Madison, Wisconsin refused to enforce an order to clear the...

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Weekly Diaspora: Sweeping AZ Immigration Bills Target Undocumented Children

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lgbt, SB 1611, Immigration, Undocumented Youth, SB 1309, LGBT Homeless, Arizona, Undocumented Students, Feet in 2 Worlds, Russell Pearce, Immigration Reform, Campus Progress, Colorlines, Homeless Youth, LGBT Immigrants, Homelessness, DREAM Act, New America Media, Birthright Citizenship Bill, Birthright Citizenship, Omnibus Immigration Bill, Politics News
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By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger The Arizona state Senate moved forward with two controversial measures this week that threaten to m...

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Showdown in Madison: A Primer for the Wisconsin Protests

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wisconsin, FREE SPEECH RADIO NEWS, COLORLINES.COM, The Progressive, The Nation, Campus Progress, The Uptake, Protests, Unions, Madison, Mother Jones, Scott Walker, Working in These Times, Grittv, Politics News
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by Raquel Brown, Media Consortium blogger It's been a tumultuous week in Madison, Wisconsin. Tens of thousands of state workers, teachers, and studen...

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Weekly Diaspora: Justice for Brisenia as Minutemen Leader Convicted of Murders

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The American Prospect, Robert Krentz, Minutemen, Tom Horne, Feet in Two Worlds, Roger Barnett, Immigration, Arizona, Fair, Alternet, Tapped, Campus Progress, Colorlines, Anti-Latino Hate Crime, Jan Brewer, Shawna Forde, Nativist, New America Media, Raul Flores, Brisenia Flores, Hate Crime, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Politics News
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By Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Days after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Attorney General Tom Horne filed suit against the federa...

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Weekly Mulch: Monsanto's Mutant Alfalfa and the Feral Pig Invasion

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roundup Ready Alfafa, Vilsack, Phmsa, Gold Mining, The Michigan Melzer, Invasive Species, Feral Pigs, Greystar, change.org, Nuclear, Monsanto, Ruce Power, Campus Progress, Gainesville, Truthout, Colombia, Mother Jones, Drummond, Feed the Future, Dioxins, Inter Press Service, New Visions for Agriculture, Green News
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by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Agribusiness giant Monsanto is strengthening its hold over the food system both in this country and abroad,...

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Weekly Pulse: New Anti-Choice Bill Suggests More #DearJohn Letters Needed

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Socialized Medicine, Vietnamese, Choice, Hmo, #DearJohn, CAROL JOFFE, NAIL SALON, Grittv, SOLVENT, Toxin, National Radio Project, SIMEON TALLEY, Rape, SADY DOYLE, Pregnancy, hr3, California, Epidemiology, Insurance, Cancer, Campus Progress, Laura Flanders, Mandate, RH Reality Check, Health, Women, Brie Cadman, Abortion, Forcible Rape, NOREEN EVANS, Republican, change.org, Immigrant, TIGERBEATDOWN, Home News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Health advocate Eesha Pandit and blogger Sady Doyle join GRITtv host Laura Flanders for a discussion...

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Weekly Audit: Crashing the Koch's Billionaire Caucus

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Breitbart, David Koch, Nancy Goldstein, Van Jones, Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, Jobs, David Dayen, Monica Potts, George Warner, The Nation, Enviornment, Rancho Las Palmas, Iowa Independent, Alternet, Tapped, Recycling, Steve Benen, Palm Spring, Minimum Wage, Campus Progress, Unemployment, Koch, Charles Koch, Jim Hightower, Tyler Kingkade, Common Cause, Plastic, Poor, Billionaire, Bruce Hunter, Economy, Politics News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Oil barons Charles and David Koch held their annual billionaires' summit in Palm Springs on Sunday, Na...

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Weekly Diaspora: Why Arizona's Birthright Bill is Bad for the Economy

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Udall Center for Public Policy, Cuentame, Splc, Immigration, Hazleton, Southern Poverty Law Center, SLLI, Hate Crimes, Fair, Brave New Foundation, Center for American Progress, Immigration Reform, Anchor Baby, Campus Progress, Colorlines, Sb 1070, Brave New Films, State Legislators for Legal Immigration, New America Media, Brookings Institution, Anti-Choice, Birthright Citizenship, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Economy, Politics News
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by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Arizona lawmakers are expected to introduce an "anchor baby" bill today that would deny birthright ...

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Let Student Organizations Discriminate, Says Civil Liberties Group

Campus Progress | David Spett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Student Organization Discrimination, Greg Lukianoff, Campus Progress, Fire, National Association of Scholars, College News

Is discrimination on campus ever necessary? A prominent civil liberties group says yes, and its argument is remarkably persuasive. Student organiza...

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Weekly Diaspora: Arizona vs. 'Anchor Babies'

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Employer Sanctions, American Independent, John McCain, Lamar Smith, American Independent News Network, Feet in Two Worlds, Larry Dever, Arizona, Steve King, Russell Pearce, E-Verify, Campus Progress, Jan Brewer, Mother Jones, Sb 1070, New America Media, Robert N. Krentz, Birthright Citizenship, 14th Amendment, Politics News
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by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger After commanding the world's attention in 2010 with its cavalier stance on immigration, the Arizona...

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Weekly Diaspora: After DREAM Act Defeat, Advocates Fight for Educational Equality

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russell Pearce, Immigration Reform, Harry Reid, Colorlines, Campus Progress, Truthout, Mother Jones, DREAM Act, Public News Service, Tuition Equality, Obama, Media Consortium, Immigration, Arizona, Barack Obama, Politics News
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by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger The Senate failed to pass the DREAM Act Saturday, as Democrats fell five votes short of the 60 need...

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