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Posts Tagged ‘budget’
Taxpayers Pay 3 million dollars to football coach?
Does the University of Michigan’s New Football Coach Need Food Stamps? Dean Baker, Huff Post: It turns out that the taxpayer subsidy to Jim Harbaugh is equal to an awful lot of food stamps, which are a useful reference point here, since Republicans have tried to vilify the program. If[...]
January 4th, 2015 - 11:27 am § in Misc.
Radical Republicans Pledge to Replace SNAP with SOUP.
One hundred percent of newly elected Republican Senators have agreed to vote to eliminate the food stamps program including; Senators Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Mike R[...]
December 14th, 2014 - 11:06 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Reuven Carlyle on accountability
Over on FACEBOOK Reuven Carlyle says: “The lack of meaningful accountability and progress in higher education to raise on-time, 4-year graduation rates is a national scandal. If a student has done their part and still can’t access core courses, colleges should pay for the extra time[...]
December 10th, 2014 - 12:01 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
WASTATE: Pay as you go?
REUVEN CARLYLE: Want a tax break? Publicly share your “pay as you go” ideas. “Pay as you go” is a budgeting principal that has been tried in Congress and in many states and failed in almost as many places. It’s popular on the left and right during good times but understandably struggles[...]
November 27th, 2014 - 1:23 am § in America
HAPPY THNKSGIVING: Unless you work for WalMart
Based on story by Laura Clawson at Daily KOS ..(click image for her full text) Walmart workers are forced to rely on government assistance to make ends meet. But PR is all … Walmart is totally concerned for its “associates” .. expressing their sincerity like China’s corpora[...]
October 5th, 2014 - 12:00 pm § in Schools & Colleges
War of Washington’s Medical School(s): WSU will be divorced from WWAMI .
The University of Washington and Washington State University declare war. After WSU decided two weeks ago to launch its own medical school, UW and WSU have announced that WSU will be divorced from the WWAMI program. This is a disaster for Washington state students who want to attend medical schoo[...]
September 30th, 2014 - 6:06 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Student Debt
This past April, facing the prospect of three 20-page papers due in the same week, Indiana University East student Harmony Glenn had a panic attack in the school library. “I couldn’t breathe, and my chest felt tight,” she said. “I was asking myself, ‘Do I push forward…or do I cut my loss[...]
“The one thing we don’t do yet – we don’t graduate any Cougar doctors” WSU Regent Mike Worthy
Should WASU have its own medical school? WSU Regents have voted to seek accreditation for its own medical school. This is resulting in an embarrassing “food fight” over a trivial sum of $24 million dollars funding from the 2015 legislative session at a time when the state budg[...]
US DROPS OUT OF TEN MOST EDUCATED COUNTRIES ON EARTH!
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