“House and Senate leaders have agreed to cut funding for the nation’s largest source of grants for college students to pay student loan contractors, according to legislationthat would fund the federal government through next year and avert a shutdown.
Money appropriated for the Pell grant program this year would fall $303 million, or 1.3 percent, to $22.5 billion, according to a proposal first introduced over the summer by retiring Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa). Most of those funds would instead be used to pay private contractors that collect borrowers’ monthly student loan payments. Harkin has defended the move as necessary.”
Read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/10/pell-cuts-cromnibus_n_6299092.html
Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian), Gina Grad (http://www.twitter.com/ginagrad), and Jimmy Dore (http://www.twitter.com/anakasprian) of The Young Turks discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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screw these students that might become scientific causing all kinds fake data supporting evolution. church should be the only education that good christians need. education is destroying our country. why do people need to be educated? lets get back to the celestial dictatorship that understands this is a christian country that can save the world through the power of jesus.