Word: needier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article "Lost Loophole" [Aug. 1] says that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare plans to tighten the rules so more money can go to needier students. What is a needy family, and what is middle income? We cannot put five children through college or even assist them through without more help than we have received so far. To have them leave home and declare themselves independent is not "tricking" or "exploiting" anyone. It's their only chance! We are the middle class. By the time the system is done with us, we will be the poor...
Does anyone ever stop to think that if middle-income Americans were not so overburdened by taxes to feed, clothe, doctor and educate "needier" families, they would be able to afford to educate their own children without help from...
...sore point is that middle-income parents may be exploiting a loophole in Health, Education and Welfare student-aid regulations to use money-totaling $3 billion this year-that might otherwise go to needier families. The trick: to plan ahead and not claim the college-bound child as an income tax exemption. The federal basic grants program considers any student not receiving more than $600 a year from his parents "independent" and thus eligible...
Higher Costs. The strikers argued that financial aid to needier students was not keeping pace with increasing college costs (tuition, room and board will be increased by $620 next fall, while the average scholarship will rise by only $66). They also want Brown to drop plans to fire junior faculty, to admit more minority students, and to include students in budget decisions...
...object to the idea that they should make the investments, provide the technology and take the risks for the benefit of the poor countries. Their counterproposal: the international authority should set rules for deep-sea mining, license qualified miners, and collect perhaps 5% of the revenues for the needier nations...