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  • Published Remembering "The Father of Pell Grants" (Blog entry)
    January 6, 2009 - 4:58pm

    On January 1, 2009, former Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI) died at the age of 90. Known as the “father of Pell Grants,” Senator Pell was instrumental in helping low and moderate income students attend college, with the creation of Basic Educational Opportunity Grants in 1972, which were renamed “Pell Grants” in 1980.

  • Commented "Re: Incorrect" in a discussion on New U.S. Census Data: Same Reality (Blog entry) | August 26, 2008 - 11:08pm
  • Rated New U.S. Census Data: Same Reality (Blog entry) | August 26, 2008 - 2:27pm
  • Published New U.S. Census Data: Same Reality (Blog entry)
    August 26, 2008 - 2:27pm

    Newly released data by the United States Census Bureau continues to show how much President George W. Bush has ravaged the American economic landscape.

  • Published Making Sense of the Rising Cost of College (Blog entry)
    May 29, 2008 - 12:45pm

    As college students celebrate graduation this May, their joy is combined with the harsh reality they face post-graduation--many of these students will graduate with unmanageable levels of loan debt that they can not afford basic necessities.

  • Shared Panel’s Bipartisan View: F.D.A. Is Underfinanced (News Headline)
    April 16, 2008 - 3:02pm

    The Food and Drug Administration needs far more money than the White House has proposed for next year, senators of both parties said Tuesday. “To us, it’s clear that they’re seriously underfunded,” Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin, said after a hearing of the Appropriations subcommittee, headed by Mr.

  • Shared Feds Try to Cut Costs of Hospital Errors (News Headline)
    April 16, 2008 - 3:00pm

    Federal health officials on Monday proposed adding dangerous blood clots in the leg and eight other conditions to the list of complications that Medicare won't pay to treat if they were acquired at the hospital.

  • Shared Unexpected Growth in U.S. Trade Deficit (News Headline)
    April 16, 2008 - 2:55pm

    You might think that with U.S. consumers buying less, the deficit would fall. Yet the trade gap in U.S. unexpectedly widened for the month of February, according to the latest numbers from the Commerce Department.

  • Shared US housing starts sag, core prices up modestly (News Headline)
    April 16, 2008 - 2:49pm

    U.S. home building skidded to a 17-year low last month while consumer prices rose slightly less than expected, leaving policy-makers room to cut interest rates further to ward off a housing-led slowdown.

  • Shared Illegal immigrants pay billions in taxes (News Headline)
    April 16, 2008 - 2:40pm

    The tax system collects its due, even from a class of workers with little likelihood of claiming a refund and no hope of drawing a Social Security check. Illegal immigrants are paying taxes to Uncle Sam, experts agree. Just how much they pay is hard to determine because the federal government doesn't fully tally it.