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EDUCATION $46.7 billion, a 1% increase. Calls for cuts in subsidies to banks that provide student loans and an increase in government Pell grants for college students...
...enough to resuscitate a flatlined economy. And a bipartisan chorus--including Clinton Administration budget chief Alice Rivlin and Reagan Administration economist Martin Feldstein--has argued that the stimulus package ought to be all about stimulus. Those people want to focus on fighting the recession, and they don't see Pell Grants, renewable-energy subsidies, health-care technology and Head Start as the best ways to do that. "Many of them are worthy, but we can have that debate another day," argues conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks. (See pictures of Barack Obama behind the scenes on Inauguration...
...economy. They're concerned with how the money would be spent. They're O.K. with a short-term injection of cash, but they don't think this is the time for long-term government investments. They want to focus on fighting the recession, and they don't see Pell grants, renewable energy subsidies, health-care technology and Head Start - much less a beautification of the Mall, contraception for low-income women or additional funding for the arts - as the best way to do that. "Many of them are worthy [programs], but we can have that debate another day," Brooks says...
...state and local governments and embattled homeowners. Then take a deep breath, and let's have the debate he promised, the rigorous test of "Do we need this?" and "Can we afford it?", for all the other programs currently marinating in the bill, whether the honeybee subsidy or the Pell grants or the medical research or any of the proposed investments meant to spur long-term recovery and growth...
...added that while the funding meets short-term needs and would help clear the clogged pipeline of NIH projects, the Collaborative wants to ensure that there would be adequate long-term funding as well. The bill also allocates billions of dollars to increase the maximum award levels for Pell Grants and Stafford loans that go toward undergraduate financial aid. While Harvard’s comparatively generous aid program may dampen the need for such federal funding, Casey said that Harvard has tried to “raise [its] voice in the national interest and not simply in Harvard?...