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...Summers said last fall that he had proposed setting the income threshold for free tuition under the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) at least...
...questionnaires, which were sent to colleges whose endowments topped $500 million as of the end of 2007, come amid a push to force universities to spend a larger share of the endowments, which some lawmakers believe would reduce tuition costs...
...Grassley and Baucus, a Montana Democrat who attended Stanford, applauded the recent expansions of financial aid by Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth in their letter to the 136 universities, calling it the “first good news in a long time” in terms of reigning in tuition costs...
...Senator John F. Kerry, a Yale alumnus who also serves on the Finance Committee, said that with soaring tuition costs and shrinking middle-class incomes, it has become increasingly important to expand tuition assistance programs for families and students...
...race, gender and sexual preference. They fixed on narrow-gauge programs rather than broad themes. All too often they sounded like Ginsu-knife salesmen on late-night cable television: "And if you buy our children's health-care plan, we'll throw in - absolutely free! - a $4,000 college-tuition tax credit. Plus, this special onetime offer: universal day care!" To be sure, the Republicans had their own special interests and slovenly hypocrisies - an avalanche of corporate tax breaks that made Swiss cheese out of the federal code - but they could always return to their big, clean public offer: freedom...