Word: lowered
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White House representatives, including Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III and presidential staff chief Howard H. Baker Jr., pushed hard Thursday to lower the tax bite from about $10 billion that was being discussed and gain more control over which levies would be raised...
...public service loan forgiveness program was not a Kennedy School innovation. Two weeks before the Kennedy School program was announced last March, the Law School established an expanded Low Income Protection Plan designed to encourage graduates to enter lower-salaried jobs in government and public interest...
...into an agreement with the Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University that will enable us to encourage public service. Specifically, it is our wish to sponsor a program that through loan forgiveness provisions will enable students at the School of Government to assume certain lower salaried positions in public or non-profit institutions that they could not otherwise accept because of student loan indebtness...
SOME SCHOOLS, however--especially, for instance, community colleges and Black colleges--suffer high default rates because many of their students come from low-income backgrounds. Ivy League universities have lower rates of default simply because their students--and the schools themselves--have more money. Elite schools, for instance, can afford to set up special bureaucracies to deal with student loan-takers. Bennett's solution most hurts the weakest link in American higher education, and puts too little pressure on students at well-endowed schools whose failure to repay their debts is particularly offensive...
Though Jackson does not support raising taxes,he has said he could not rule out the possibility.But he said if taxation were necessary, he wouldfight for a fairer system for the middle class,lower class and the poor...