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According to Sandy Baum, a senior policy analyst for the College Board, the current state of federal financial aid deters many students in lower income brackets from pursuing a college education...
...expat who takes everything at face value, I have held my nose, dived into the smog, and tried to find an authentic experience in a city that’s about as real as Vegas or Dubai.“This is my lowest price, I can go no lower, I could be killed, I cannot feed my family for any lower price,” the owner of a shop once said to me with tears welling in her eyes. I looked at the knock-off shoes I was bargaining for, sighed, and paid the price she was asking...
...because under the provisions of Section 8 of the historic law a significant change will be under way in the next few years. As a result, building owners who participate in the program - receiving subsidies from the Department of Housing and Urban Development in exchange for taking in lower-income renters - will be able to opt out of those contracts. And many are thinking of doing just that. America's two largest cities, New York and Los Angeles, will be severely affected as will many smaller communities...
...around. Says Howard Husock, vice president of policy research at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative New York-based think tank: "If you look at the location of many of the buildings that are discussed, there is not an unlimited supply of investment bankers who are going to move into lower-income areas. That's why the government must figure out how they will help these buildings...
...when Muslim hordes were feared to be on the verge of overrunning Europe, is still widely commemorated. At the same time, Austrians are among the most euro-skeptic populations on the Continent. Just 28%, in a recent survey, said that they had a positive view of the E.U., a lower percentage even than in Britain. The sanctions imposed on Austria by the E.U. after Haider's strong showing in 1999 seem to have triggered an abiding sense of spite towards Brussels among large swaths of the population...