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Stuber, whose father was a steel-worker and fire fighter, worked his way through college as a scholarship student. And in keeping with his background, he focuses on education, including funding for Head Start and Pell grants. He also supports Americorps, President Clinton's national-service program, and advocates a penny-a-pound tax on sugar to fund the cleanup of the Everglades...
Roemer is a centrist Democrat who does not toe the party line. As an economic conservative, he supports a balanced-budget amendment and is a hawk on legislative pork. But he shows his Democratic roots by backing federal education programs like the Pell Grant and Head Start. Already thrice victorious in the Third, Roemer seems to have found a moderate voice to suit his district...
Crawford is a mainstream Democrat who emphasizes education, the elderly and health care. In keeping with his professorial background, he would increase Pell grants and other federally subsidized college loans. While he says Medicare reform is a must, he believes G.O.P. proposals to fix it are too harsh...
...doesn't lack character. Once a haven for political refugees from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the free spirit survived the Revolution, and Rhode Island was the last of original 13 states to join the new Union. This year's election continues the tradition of political unrest: Claiborne Pell, an Ocean State Senator since 1960, is retiring, and Jack Reed is leaving his House seat as he attempts to succeed Pell. In this Democratic state, the G.O.P. hopes to capitalize on these vacancies, building on their success in 1994, when voters elected a G.O.P. Governor and re-elected Republican John Chafee...
...device called "alien sponsor deeming," sponsors' assets (which immigrants need in some cases to gain legal entrance to the United States) are added to the immigrant's finances to create an overinflated income. According to the e-mail, projections show that under the welfare bill, $21 million in Pell Grants and $31 million in loans will be lost for legal immigrants in the California university system alone. In California, 32.6 percent of all Pell Grant recipients are legal immigrants. In Florida, 16.6 percent are. Oddly enough, the Senate version of the bill (S.269) restricts even more aid to legal immigrants...