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Better way to help students
- The Philadelphia Inquirer (new window)
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A vice president of Sallie Mae wrote a letter attempting to position the student-loan giant as an agent of change when it comes to federal student-loan reform ("Sallie Mae supports student-loan reform," Friday). Yet it fights a proposal being put forth by President Obama and the U.S. House that would divert $87 billion in subsidies from banks and instead spend it on desperately needed student aid. |
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Editorial: Students need senator’s help on aid bill
- The Delaware County-Times (new window)
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ith most of the nation, and our elected officials in Washington, focused on health care and how to spend repaid TARP money, it’s easy to overlook important items on the legislative agenda.
The education of American college students in this technological age and the need to revitalize the federal student aid programs for the benefit of those students is one of those issues. A Pennsylvania senator can play a key role in legislation before the Senate. |
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Editorial: College payment plan
- Lancaster Intelligencer-Journal (new window)
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If cost were not an obstacle to college, imagine the talent pool this nation might cultivate. |
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Keeping college degrees affordable, attainable
- The Johnstown Tribune Democrat (new window)
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A college degree is essential in today’s economy, but it is becoming harder to attain due to financial barriers. The combination of rising costs, stagnant grant aid and shrinking state budget allocations to higher education has made a college degree hard to afford. |
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Editorial: Casey, Specter should back loan reforms
- Scranton Times-Tribune (new window)
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Congress faces some daunting economic issues but it also has a chance to act quickly on a home run for taxpayers and consumers.
The House already has passed the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. It is historic legislation that will convert student loans from a no-risk cash cow for private lenders into an efficient way to help more families finance college educations - all at no cost to taxpayers. |
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Editorial: Pass college aid reform
- The York Dispatch
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No job and $25,000 in debt.
That's not an unfortunate victim of the Great Recession -- that's the average Pennsylvania college graduate in 2008. |
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Editorial: Give it the old college try: Student loan bill could save billions of dollars
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (new window)
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While most of the attention on the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol is focused on health care, banks and other big lenders have been ramping up their efforts to derail a bill that would expand and improve the federal college loan program. |
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Editorial: Paying for college
- Philadelphia Inquirer (new window)
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Health reform isn't the only important measure awaiting Senate action. That chamber also has before it legislation that would finally knock private lenders out of the lucrative college loan business.
The sooner that happens, the better. Eliminating the current middleman system would let the federal government make more loans directly. Instead of subsidies going to banks, more aid would go to needy students. |
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