| A Few Modest Proposals For Fixing The Huge Student Loan Mess - For the record, I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the Hitler Youth. I point this out because based on the comments to my last few columns (which focused on the idea that a National Service Corps could help solve our student debt crisis) it would seem that some of you -- not too many, thankfully -- seem to think I'm affiliated with the organization.
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| Voterama in Congress, week ending May 18, 2012 - House Violence Against Women Act: Voting 222 for and 205 against, the House on May 16 approved a Republican bill (HR 4970) to renew the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) through fiscal 2016 on a budget of $680 million annually. The bill was disputed mainly because it omits provisions in a bi-partisan Senate-passed bill to expand protections for battered women who are illegal immigrants, Native ...
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| Funding for new village facility OK'd - The Village of Dannemora relocated to the former Dannemora Elementary School last July, now a loan and grant from U.S. Department of Agriculture-Rural Development will pay for associated costs.
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| New scheme for NSW's public tenants - The NSW government is set to introduce a new bond loan scheme for public housing tenants.
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| Scrapping rent grant 'may hurt the poor' - SOME of the state's poorest renters could be put under further financial strain by an O'Farrell government decision to cut a key rental assistance grant next week, housing advocates warn.
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| Students prepare for 'black Budget' - The Prime Minister has signalled that the interest-free student loan scheme will change in this month's Budget.
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| Paying for Post-Secondary #Education 101: New online guide by @FCACan - New online material offers tips on everything from saving to budgeting to finding sources of moneyOTTAWA, April 30, 2012 /CNW/ - Students and parents have a new one-stop location to find free, objective ...
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| Iraqi Air halts Bombardier order, seeks Boeing, Airbus - Carrier has US$300m in government funds to spend and is now eying larger planes
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| College students protest debt on "Trillion Dollar Day" - NEW YORK (Reuters) - College students held demonstrations in several U.S. cities on Wednesday to mark the day total U.S. student loan debt was expected to reach $1 trillion, with some burning student loan documents and others demanding a right to "debt-free degrees." The demonstrations for "One Trillion Dollar Day" come as President Barack Obama was visiting colleges to push Congress to extend ...
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