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...former six-term Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, aristocratic Claiborne Pell, 90, helped pass the 1972 law that created Pell grants for college students. The program has funded millions of higher-education opportunities...
...qualms about the debt take a backseat to worries about a depression, the scope of the stimulus plan has grown to include everything from expanding Pell grants for college students and health care for the unemployed to investment in renewable energy. Instead of temporary measures meant to prop up the sagging economy over the next two years, much of what has been proposed looks like a laundry list of Obama campaign promises. If the plan is passed, Obama will get, in one fell swoop, a running start on large swaths of his long-term agenda, the ultimate cost of which...
...continuing resolution, which postpones budgetary decisions until after the presidential election to avoid a presidential veto by President Bush, keeps the maximum Pell Grant award level and federal support for research organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy constant, through March 6. If the continuing resolution had not been passed, such decisions would have been completed by October...
...proposed changes, issued last Thursday by the independent Rethinking Student Aid study group, include obtaining all financial information from the IRS, instead of requiring that students compile tax information themselves. The report also calls for adjusting the size of Pell Grants for inflation while accounting for family size and adjusted gross income...
...recent years, China has barely been able to keep a lid on the social dislocation caused by the country's pell-mell economic growth, which has brought miraculous progress but also misery to millions of people working in inhumane conditions or victimized by widespread corruption and collusion between businessmen and local Party bosses. Precise numbers are hard to come by, but government officials have acknowledged that scores of so-called "mass incidents" - protests - occur every day. These often violent eruptions of frustration were bottled up by the authorities as the Olympics loomed. Some are now worried they are primed...