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Sodium chloride wasn't always a stealth killer. Despite a known link between sodium and high blood pressure, iodized table salt saved lives when U.S. manufacturers started producing it in 1924, adding a bulwark against iodine-deficiency-related diseases like goiter to every kitchen table. Salt consumption spiraled into a...
"Government takeover!" So yelled the many critics of President Barack Obama's health care reform bill. But in their focus on the main event, Republicans seem to have all but ignored another part of the legislation that more precisely fits their rhetoric. In addition to securing the President a victory...
So where's all that outrage now? The thing is, the government already runs much of the student-loan industry. For decades under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program, the government has handed out subsidies to large banks and companies like Sallie Mae that lend money to student borrowers...
With his first major piece of education legislation out of the way, Obama will likely move on to K-12 matters later this year as he attempts to rework the unpopular No Child Left Behind law. But before then, members of Congress (and America's students) are going on spring...
Yet the bill that President Obama signed into law has implications for you beyond the health sector. The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act—an addition to the healthcare bill—enables students to receive loans directly from the federal government. This will cut out the middleman...