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However, there are some disadvantages to this plan. The investment vehicle is strictly limited to college expenses. One cannot have a 529 plan to take spring break trips to Cancun or purchase expensive shopping items in order to be as trendy as their peers. The fund is strictly there to provide access to higher education for those who would not necessarily be able to afford...
William C. Kirby, chairman of the Harvard China Fund, said he hoped the center would pave the way for more academic partnerships with Chinese univerisities, support undergraduates and faculty research efforts, and bolster Harvard’s presence in China...
...answer: a combination of tax increases and fiscal smoke and mirrors. The legislation raises taxes by $569.2 billion and cuts funds from Medicare and Social Security. Democrats are also able to claim that the bill cuts the deficit because, while the insurance subsidies don’t start until 2014, many of the taxes kick in within months. In other words, the changes the bill makes to the health-care system itself will cost $938 billion, as estimated by the CBO, and to fund it, Democrats use taxes and accounting gimmicks. Not only could the new revenue sources have instead...
...Leger says she would take any honest work, like sweeping the streets, to support herself and her 6-year-old daughter. And securing jobs for the hundreds of thousands of unemployed is a long-term goal for the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. But St. Leger is skeptical when asked about the estimated $2.2 billion reportedly spent in postearthquake Haiti - with about $780 million spent by USAID and Department of Defense humanitarian aid. "If they've spent billions of dollars," she says, "I haven't seen it. We are living here day to day. We are bathing in dirt when...
Large campaigns like the 2001 effort represent an opportunity for University Presidents to lay out their vision for the University’s future in the hope that donors will agree to fund that effort—an experience that can define the president’s tenure...