Word: tuition
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty years later: Can't quit now. You have a mortgage, orthodontist bills, and tuition bills are just around the corner. Your next promotion is coming up soon. Besides, if you leave your job, you lose more than a guaranteed income; you lose health insurance, retirement benefits--your security...
...interested in protesting the activities of the U.S. government, they spent a lot more time organizing in areas where they had real influence. Across the country, student pressure has forced university divestment from firms doing business with South Africa, and in New York state, students have successfully challenged annual tuition hikes...
BOSTON--The Board of Regents of Higher Education, facing state budget cuts for public colleges and universities, approved a tuition increase Tuesday over the protest of student leaders...
...Michael S. Dukakis proposed just such a program, the Student Tuition and Repayment System (STARS), during the 1988 presidential campaign. Dukakis' plan involved deducting a standardized percentage from participants' paychecks for an extended period following their graduation and entry into the work force. Thus, those who took high-paying jobs would end up subsidizing those who with lower incomes...
...program should be structured such that the revenue collected would be sufficient to absorb the cost of the program. Better yet, the program should operate at an annual loss to the federal government of $11 billion--roughly twice the current amount of federal tuition grants. Such a subsidy to higher education is well-justified on grounds of efficiency as well as fairness, as the social benefit of an educated work force far higher than the cost of the subsidy...