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Showing posts with label Senator Tom Harkin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Senator Tom Harkin. Show all posts
Friday, January 15, 2021

Teaching wild hogs to dance: Brookings says for-profit college system is broken and thinks it know how to fix it

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 The Brookings Institution published a report this week calling attention to the for-profit college system's enormous abuses. "For...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

The for-profit college industry is shrinking: It's time to shut this sleazy sector down

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We've known for a long time that the for-profit college industry is a cancer infecting the higher education community. Senator Tom Harki...
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Thursday, October 2, 2014

Senator Tom Harkin is Like a Shade-Tree Mechanic--He Can Tell You What's Wrong With the Student Loan Program, But He Can't Fix It: Veterans, The New GI Bill and the For-Profit Colleges

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Photo credit: autoguide.com Senator Tom Harkin reminds me of the shade-tree mechanics I patronized when I was young and poor and drove o...
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Friday, June 13, 2014

Is Senator Elizabeth Warren a Paper Tiger? Her Bill to Lower Interest Rates Was a Non-Starter

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A lot of people think Senator Elizabeth Warren is a fierce advocate for college-loan debtors, a feisty bulldog who strives mightily to get s...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

The For-Profits "Are Making Out Like a Bandit": Will Sheriff Obama Round Up those Bad Boys?

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In a question-and-answer session with college students at SUNY at Binghamton, President Obama made clear that he understands what's wron...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Obama Signs a Bill to Reduce Interest Rates on Student Loans: This is Just a Side Show

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Earlier this month, Congress passed a bipartisan bill to reduce interest rates on student loans, and President Obama signed the bill into l...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

The Bomb That Failed to Explode: Why Didn't the Senate Report on For-Profit Colleges Provoke Public Outrage?

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Senator Tom Harkin   In July 2012, an important U.S. Senate Committee, chaired by Senator Tom Harkin from Iowa, issued a lengthy report...