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...popular predecessor, William F. Weld '66, and the strength of the state economy. Cellucci has little to show for his more than a year in office. His much-publicized budget cuts this summer removed necessary funding from worker training and adult education programs while doing little to aid the Commonwealth's working families. Finally, Harshbarger and Cellucci differ markedly on the most important issue of this campaign: education. Cellucci has been inconsistent in his support of education reform, at one point opposing a measure to test teachers...
Several Ivy League universities, including Harvard, have recently made plans to increase student financial aid. And last April the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching released a report criticizing research universities for treating undergraduates like "second-class citizens...
Rawlings announced a plan for Cornell to raise $200 million for undergraduate student financial aid...
...legislature implemented changes to half-encourage, half-push recipients into the work-force. With a few exceptions, the bill requires welfare recipients to work-force. With a few exceptions, the bill requires welfare recipients to work or volunteer for 20 hours a week, and it limits welfare aid to two years per family. Starting this December, thousands of families will reach their time limits and stop getting welfare...
...attention, though, is the oldest and simplest: Why should we pay money to solve other people's problems, especially when we have so many problems of our own? Although one could argue against this on the basis of a moral duty to help other human beings in need of aid, there are more prgamatic arguments...