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...previously said the school’s budget crunch would force him to cap spending on the Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP), which offers debt relief to KSG graduates earning under $50,000 a year in public sector jobs...
...this program didn’t exist, I would have to give up working in the nonprofit sector and completely change directions in my life,” Rogers said...
...while all this strategic thinking is going on in the private sector, the government has responded to terrorism in a less rational way. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, about $13.1 billion has surged into state coffers from the Federal Government--sorely needed money that has gone for police, fire and emergency services to help finance equipment and training to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks. That is a 990% increase over the $1.2 billion spent by the Federal Government for similar programs in the preceding three years. But the vast majority of the $13.1 billion was distributed with no regard...
...This spring is shaping up to be the ump's season of discontent. A French public that has tossed out the last two governments because of their reform programs has for more than a year now been growling its displeasure over Raffarin's belt-tightening regime. Last May public sector workers - including transport workers, civil servants and teachers - took to the streets to protest pension reforms, and during the summer performing-arts workers shut down arts festivals in a battle over unemployment benefits that's still going on. Thousands of scientists and researchers have marched against reduced funding, and last...
...group of dissident SPD members called the Initiative for Work and Social Justice set up a website in early March that in its first 10 days tallied 160,000 visits and signed up 750 people. Another opposition group, called Election Alternative, has drawn together officials of the Verdi public-sector trade union and leaders of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the successor to East Germany's Communist Party. According to Joachim Bischoff, a PDS member and one of the leaders of the new opposition movement, the two groups already have between 5,000 and 6,000 members...