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Pell grant austerity

…The bill, if passed, would slash millions of students’ Pell Grants: completely eliminating grants for more than 550,000 students next year and for more than 1 million students in 2017,…

Updated cost projections for the Pell Grant program

New America points us to Pell Grant cost projections: The Congressional Budget Office this week released updated cost projections for the Pell Grant program – and the estimates show an…

Pell Grants

Republicans often emphasize the role of incentives. Bush says education is the key to having good jobs in the future. Both valid points. Now I understand the need for fiscal…

Checking the Fact-Checkers

…that Pell Grants had been cut, while Bush said that he’d increased Pell grants. The article states that Kerry had the facts correct when he said that “they’ve cut the…

Forbes and the "Self-Made" Label

by cactus Forbes and the “Self-Made” Label I’m kinda busy these days, but this topic is small pet peeve of mine: what the heck is up with Forbes and the…

Off label drug pushers

…have to submit articles.” Off-label use of drugs is big business. According to The Wall Street Journal, “[FDA] is stepping into a high-stakes business issue, because off-label uses of prescription…

Mike sends a response to rdan on off-label drugs

…unreasonable cases, but if it is reasonable that the off-label use of the drug might have caused the damage, then the encouraged off-label use would lead to an assumption of…