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...announced it would eliminate $1,000 in loans and work-study requirements for all students on financial aid coupled with a pledge to increase overall scholarships by 14 percent Some needier students' burdens will be relieved by as much...
...will now expect students receiving financial aid to provide $1,000 less in self-help aid for the next academic year. Some needier students' burdens will be relieved by as much...
...people. Most Democrats are deeply suspicious of the plan's supposed windfall, arguing that only those who have money can afford to save it. ""Their program attracts only the well-off," said Dick Gephardt, "while the sicker and poorer people are left behind." The cost of treating those needier patients, opponents contend, will quickly drive up Medicare premiums when healthier seniors are allowed to squirrel away unused Medicare funds. To make sure that the test is meaningful, the White House promises to make sure the pilot program enrolls a representative slice of Medicare recipients...
...well-heeled parents who pay the full freight at Penn help support not only other, needier students but also the tuition reimbursements of very comfortable professors. They pay again through federal taxes to help cover the costs of federal financial-aid programs. And if they live in Pennsylvania, they pay yet again, through taxes that not only produce the $36 million state appropriation that went directly to Penn last year but that also subsidize the state's public colleges and universities...
...just as it faces a flood of younger, poorer, needier children into state-subsidized day care, Wisconsin planned to reduce the amount it spends for each child--with consequences that would be felt throughout the day-care system. For one thing, the state proposed channeling more of this money to welfare families by reducing day-care subsidies to the working poor through higher co-payments and eligibility standards. (Some low-income families would have been required to spend as much as 46% of their gross income on child care.) The state also proposed a sliding-scale co-pay structure...