Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refreshing change from the Administration's past policy, the motives are suspect. This is a crucial time in the nation's future, when education is critical for restoring America's economic health. And with progress on civil rights and fighting poverty stalled, the federal government must provide aid for all low-income and minority students to ensure them equal access to college and jobs. With so much at stake, a college education should not have to rely on the political calculations of presidential candidates...
Students will also work at Centro Presente, anorganization that offers legal aid to CentralAmerican refugees. Students will help refugeesfacing deportation to gain political asylum, Manisaid...
Such defiant sentiments seem to be spreading among Nicaragua's citizens. Three weeks ago, the Sandinista leadership was heartened when Congress cut off new aid to the contras. But contra-Sandinista talks were suspended late last week with no agreement, and most Nicaraguans no longer believe the country is headed toward peace and prosperity. The Sandinistas may have won a political battle on Capitol Hill, but back home they risk losing the war for hearts, minds -- and bellies...
...educational system needs bolstering. But before additional federal funds are committed, the money now available should be redirected. Nearly $2 billion a year could be saved by collecting on defaulted student loans and reducing aid to those who enroll in for-profit trade schools. That money could be funneled to literacy programs in junior and senior high schools in educationally disadvantaged areas...
...Polish Pope in this instance was equally critical of capitalism and Marxism. Each, said the Pontiff, "harbors in its own way a tendency toward imperialism" and employs "structures of sin" in seeking wealth and influence in the world's poor nations. What they desperately need, said he, is "impartial aid from all the richer and more developed countries...