Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homeless people who exhibited signs of mental illness were taken off the streets of New York City last week. Under a new city program, they will be provided with hospitalization and psychiatric help. This is only a first--and small--step to aid victims of mental illness...
...Reagan Administration will cut off financial aid to colleges and universities with high default rates on student loans, Secretary of Education William J. Bennett threatened yesterday in a Washington press conference...
Under the Bennett plan, schools at which more than 20 percent of those students with GSLs fail to repay their debts will lose access to all federal financial aid programs, including Pell grants and College Work-Study. The plan, which does not need Congressional approval, will impose its first cuts in 1989, the Secretary said...
Education lobbyists representing Harvard and most other colleges and universities have waged a battle to pre-empt Bennett's plan by proposing their own solutions to the default problem. They fear that Administration officials will use the default issue to achieve their long-sought goal of crippling financial aid programs...
...Bennett and hostile congressmen could use default to threaten funding for all financial aid programs," said