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The GOP's War on Children

Bruce Kluger | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Fundamentalism, Gop, Dog on the Roof!, Children, Obamacare, Conservatism, Obama, Children?S Health Insurance Program, Politics, 2012 Presidential Election, Colleen Clapp, Bruce Kluger, Women, Rush Limbaugh, Budget, Bullying, Mitt Romney, Medicaid, Mormonism, Parenting, Pell Grants, War on Terror, Education, Michele Bachmann, Wall Street, Rolling Stone, On the Road With Mitt and the Mutt, Head Start, Paul Ryan, Republicans, Gays, Utah, David Slavin, Jack Denton Reese, Politics News

As in most presidential election years, noisy battles have been raging as the nation's political armies gear up for what promises to be an even nois...

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For Latino Voters, Immigration NOT The Biggest Campaign Issue

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Welfare, Video, Latino Voters, Food Stamps, Vanderbilt University, Illegal Immigration, Magali Sanchez Hall, University of California Los Angeles, Social Safety Net, Undocumented Immigrant, The Life of Julia, Election 2012, Pell Grants, Efren Perez, Latino Voices News

When she was 12, Magali Sanchez's parents divorced. Her mother, unable to find work in Mexico that would feed the family, made a desperate decision. ...

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New Student Aid Limitations Could Challenge Former Foster Youths

Ryann Blackshere | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Financial Aid, Congress, College, Foster Care, Foster Youth, Pell Grants, Education News

Looming changes to the Federal Pell Grant Program will jeopardize the college prospects of former foster youth, who often start toward higher education with no academic credentials and high financial needs.

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We're Having the Wrong Debate About Student Loan Interest Rates

Kati Haycock | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Interest Rates, U.S. Economy, College Tuition, Congress, Student Debt, College, Student Loans, Pell Grants, College Costs, Paying for College, Cost of College, College News

Only in the crazy world of federal budgetary politics can protecting a 3.4 percent interest rate feel like a victory. After all, the Federal Reserve lends money to commercial banks at a discount rate that currently stands at 0.75 percent.

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To Improve The Economy, America Needs More College Graduates

Bloomberg View | Jonathan Alter | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Interest Rates, Video, Unemployment Rate, Bloomberg View, Rahm Emanuel, Education Department, Majoring in Debt, Harvard, Student Loans, Pell Grants, Business News

From Bloomberg View Anyone with half a brain knows that bolstering the middle class is critical to securing the future of the U.S. It’s a matter ...

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Student Loan Reform Fight Broader For Obama Than Interest Rate Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 04.25.2012

WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, congressional Democrats announced plans to introduce legislation that would extend the current low interest rates on governm...

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The New Student Battle Cry: Don't Double My Rate!

Rich Williams | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Interest Rates, College Students, Obama, Student Loan Debt, Student Loans, College, Barack Obama, Stafford Loans, College Affordability, Student Loan Rates, Paying for College, Students, Pell Grants, College News

The media and the country are just waking up to the alarming fact that unless Congress acts by July 1, the interest rate on subsidized Stafford student loans will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. Congress must not let that happen.

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LOOK: Obama In Boulder And The Photo That Went Viral

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 04.26.2012

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President Barack Obama walked into a bar. That's not just the beginning of a joke, it's the beginning of the whirlwind that was Obamamania last night ...

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Why I'm In: Barack Obama Is a President Who Fights for Me

Alejandra Salinas | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, College Democrats, Education, Student Loan Debt, Barack Obama, Pell Grants, Young Voters, 2012 Election, Obama Young Voters, President Obama, Elections 2012, Student Loans, College News

On Election Day 2012 my generation will have its voice heard loud and clear: we want to continue the progress in education, and the one to provide that is President Barack Obama.

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Will Education Be A Decisive Election Issue In 2012?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Education News, Arne Duncan, Ryan Budget, Teachers Unions, Mitt Romney, Joe Biden, Barack Obama Education, Barack Obama, Ed-Lection 2012, Education, College Board, Massachusetts Education, Joel Klein, School Accountability, Teachers, Pell Grants, Education News

After a presidential primary campaign so far largely devoid of debate on education, the topic could be a decisive one in 2012, according to a new surv...

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8 Ways The Government Is Grappling With Student Loans

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.30.2012

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) thinks Congress should change the law to allow borrowers to have their debt from private student loans wiped clean when fili...

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Republican Budget Represents a Bleak Future for America

Rep. Steny Hoyer | Posted 05.30.2012

All of us want to put America back on a sustainable fiscal path, but to do so everyone must be asked to pitch in. The Republican budget, however, places the entire burden of deficit reduction on the middle class, seniors, and the most vulnerable.

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Ryan Budget Slashes Pell Grants

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Arne Duncan, Ryan Budget 2012, College Affordability, Ryan Budget, Budget, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Rick Santorum, Student Loans, Ed-Lection 2012, Education, 112th Congress, Education Reform, Paul Ryan, Pell Grants, Education News

More than 1 million students would lose Pell grants entirely over the next 10 years under Rep. Paul Ryan's budget, according to an analysis that the n...

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Mr. Bennett and Mr. Bumble

Brian Rosenberg | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Pell Grants, Collese Costs, Private Colleges Tuition, William Bennett College, Government Aid Colleges, Pell Grants Colleges, College News

While we cannot easily say what the solution to rising college costs is, we can say what it is not. It is not reducing support through grants and low-interest loans for those who are most in need.

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Will Congress Prevent Student-Loan Interest Rates From Doubling?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Education News, Education, Interest Rate Doubling, Tom Harkin, 112th Congress, Financial Aid, Harry Reid, John Kline, Lumina Foundation, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Education, Stafford Loan Interest Rate, Pell Grants, Stafford Loans, Jack Reed, Education News

Spencer Pritchard, a first-year political economics student at University of California, Berkeley, has less control over his professional career than...

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Medicaid: Help in Hard Times

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.25.2012

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Medicaid is vital -- it provides hundreds of millions of children who are poor or have disabilities with comprehensive health coverage enabling them to become productive, taxpaying members of society.

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5 Things Obama's Budget Does For Higher Ed

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Photos, Department of Education, Budget, Race to the Top, President Obama, Obama, Community Colleges, Education Funding, Barack Obama, 2013 Budget, President's Budget, First in the World, Slideshow, Higher Education, Research Universities, College Funding, Pell Grants, For-Profit Colleges, College News

President Obama's budget proposal for the 2013 fiscal year would beef up spending on higher education. Appropriately, he unveiled it at a community c...

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Preserving America's Safety Net

Tammy Duckworth | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Msnbc, Illinois 8th District, Food Stamps, Newt Gingrich, Tammy Duckworth, Safety Net, Pell Grants, Joe Walsh, Martin Bashir, Veterans, Video, Chicago News

Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it.

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Many Are Like Romney -- 'Not Concerned' About Very Poor

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Gop, Medicare, Lyndon Johnson, Franklin Roosevelt, Newt Gingrich, Pell Grants, Poverty, Mitt Romney Poor, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney Very Poor, Mitt Romney Poor People, Politics News

We need targeted intervention by our federal government to provide jobs for our people -- an FDR-like program that hires our youth, our returning soldiers, our chronically unemployed.

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College Affordability: Damned If You Go, Damned If You Don't?

José Cruz | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: College Tuition, Higher Education, Student Loans, Income Inequality, College Costs, College, State of the Union, Pell Grants, College Affordability, Affording College Tuition, Financial Aid, College News

We can make it not only possible, but probable that the growing numbers of low-income students can rise to the middle class, paving the way for less inequality and more social mobility in America.

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Pell Grants Saved -- Kind Of

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Education News, Pell Grants 2011, Obama College Affordability, Education, College Affordability, College, 112th Congress, Budget Showdown, Pell Grants, College News

With the maximum allocation for Pell Grants preserved in the latest round of the budget showdown -- despite much political football and an earlier Hou...

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Can Obama Deliver On His College Affordability Promises?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Education News, Arne Duncan, Department of Education, College Affordability, Obama Assassination Attempt, Financial Aid, Joe Biden, Student Loans, Ed-Lection 2012, Video, Education, Obama College Costs, 112th Congress, Obama Middle Class, Election 2012, Pell Grants, College News

NEPTUNE BEACH, Fla. -- When Joe Biden traveled here last week with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to host a town hall on college affordabilit...

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Start Your Student Loan Search Now

Jason Alderman | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Pell Grants, Federal Direct PLUS Loans, Fafsa, Direct Stafford Loans, Federal Perkins Loans, College Loans, Applying for Loans, Student Loans, Education News

Not to elevate your stress level, but this is probably a good time for you and your kid to start investigating how you're going to finance college next fall. Seriously.

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House Republicans Unveil Cuts To Education, NPR

AP | By ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 11.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Setting a collision course with Democrats that could drag out for months, House Republicans on Thursday unveiled plans to cut federal mo...

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Fighting for Pell Grants

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Supercommittee, Education, Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island, Pell Grants, Pell Grant Funding, Pell Grant Budget, Politics News

As the Congressional "supercommittee" prepares to recommend significant budget cuts this fall, there may be a fight for the future of Pell Grant.

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