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Under the new initiative—which takes effect this fall—Yale expects the average cost for students on financial aid to decrease by over 50 percent...
Neither school will require families earning less than $60,000 annually to contribute toward the cost of education, and families earning between $60,000 and $120,000 will be expected to pay up to 10 percent of their income...
Harvard’s plan calls for families making between $120,000 and $180,000 per year to pay 10 percent of their income, while Yale’s plan calls for families making between $120,000 and $200,000 per year to contribute that same percentage...
Neither university created hard rules, however, with Harvard noting the policy applied to families with “assets typical for these income levels,” and Yale specifying that families would pay an “average” of 10 percent of their income. The schools did not elaborate on the meaning of the phrases...
...complete a set of complex ballot access procedures in each of the 50 states. The process usually requires candidates to submit thousands of signatures on petitions to state election boards and meet varying deadlines. In Texas, for instance, an independent candidate must file petitions with signatures equal to one percent of the total votes that were cast for governor within 61 days of the primary elections, which will be held this year on March 4. But getting on the ballot is generally not a hurdle to third-party candidates...