Word: aid
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...office on January 20. During his time as governor, he was outspoken on several major economic issues. He was an early supporter of tax reform and of the mandatory balanced budget act. He also favored abolishing federal income tax deductions for state and local taxes, a move which would aid low-tax states such as Pennsylvania...
...trillion dollar budget to Capitol Hill. His proposals call for the deficit to be cut to the $108 billion Gramm-Rudman target through a combination of $42 billion in spending reductions and revenue increases. Some $20 billion of that would be trimmed from domestic programs, including mass-transit aid, housing assistance and farm subsidies. Social Security, as usual, remains untouchable...
...good to be true. It wasn't. What the Administration is really doing--as a comprehensive New York Times article made clear--is trying to slash federal aid to students...
RISING COLLEGE costs and diminishing federal aid threaten to turn the American system of financing higher education into a national soap opera, "Graduates in Debt." A report released last week by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee warns that while student borrowing under federal programs has tripled in the last decade, federal grants and scholarships have decreased by 62 percent. This, the report says, threatens to overburden a generation of college graduates...
France last week joined the increasingly international battle by air- dropping supplies to the rebels, who are now backed by Chad President Hissene Habre. Meanwhile, the first of some $15 million in U.S. emergency military aid arrived last week in the Chad capital, N'Djamena, for the fight against Libya...