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...number of Harvard students receiving the federally-funded Pell Grant continues to rise despite a trend in the opposite direction at the nation’s wealthiest colleges. According to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, the percentage of undergraduates receiving the grant—traditionally an indicator of the number of low-income students in the College—has risen from 6.8 in 2000-2001 to 13 in 2007-2008. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week that from 2004-2005 to 2006-2007, the average proportion of Pell Grant...
...former Republican senator from Tennessee may have adopted his view from a trend abroad. In Eastern Europe, for example, nine countries have already adopted some form of a flat tax. Thompson advocated a similar system: individuals would pay 10 percent on income below $50,000 and 25 percent on the rest. With this quasi-flat tax and the current tax remaining as an option (to be phased out), unchecked loopholes could be closed, and both administrative expenses and general confusion would diminish, while compliance increased. (At least, this has been the Eastern European experience...
...database that provides current information on F, M and J non-immigrants in the United States.” That this money is going to a system meant primarily to monitor and record the activities of students is worrying. These adjustments represent yet more bureaucratic tweaking to an unfortunate trend in immigration procedures—namely, the increasing cost of entering the U.S. Rather than continue to raise the economic bar to foreigners wishing to enter the country, the federal government should seek to alleviate the costs for international students. Ever rising costs will inevitably affect the numbers of international...
...cling onto power. The country faces extreme inflation exceeding 100,000 percent this year, the worst for any country in the world. A U.S. $100 bill now buys 44 lbs of Zimbabwean currency. while a6y7u loaf of bread costs 7 million Zimbabwean dollars. And it only gets worse: current trends suggest inflation will spiral even further out of control in the upcoming months. Inflation represents only one of the problems of the country. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Zimbabwe has had negative GDP growth rate for the past decade, with GDP per capita falling by 40 percent...
...this incident only confirms a trend long in arriving. Text message usage has exploded since 2000, with 2.3 trillion messages projected to be sent worldwide in 2008, and America is only one of the smaller markets...