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...stagnation, the Pell Grant—a government-sponsored form of financial aid benefiting 700 low-income Harvard undergraduates—is poised for an increase. The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to raise the maximum Pell Grant by $260, or 6 percent. Yesterday, President Bush announced a budget calling for an increase of $550, which would boost the grant to a maximum of $4,600 per year. The director of financial aid for the College, Sally C. Donahue, welcomed the move to increase federal funding for needy students, citing a lack of action in Washington over the last four...
...make the best out of a very difficult situation, which is that HUDS has a very limited budget,” Ragalie said, citing fruit as a difficult food group to improve because of cost concerns...
...look at trade separate and apart from how we fix health care. I don't think we can look at it separate and apart from how we incentivize and pay for education, so we keep trying to improve the skills of our workforce. And I think that the budget deficit has mortgaged our future and the holders of the mortgages are governments like the government of China, so then it makes it even more difficult for us to get tough when it comes to trade. So we've kind of walked into this vicious cycle and we need to break...
...subsidies to its underperforming hinterland. That formula secured the government reliable votes, but it also enabled rural people to enjoy higher income levels, sparing Japan from the social inequality that has beset such rapidly growing neighbors as China. But the policy was sustainable only as long as Tokyo had budget surpluses to burn. Today, Japan may be the world's second-richest nation, but its public debt that is more than 1.5 times the size of its GDP, the highest in the developed world. So, a budget-conscious central government has cut subsidies, and Yubari will have to pay back...
Regan seems determined to stay on. He held his own session with Congressmen last week in which he claimed the President needed his services in preparing the State of the Union message and with work on the new budget. He appeared to take a certain gritty pride in toughing out the controversy. "I'm really taking the heat now," he said. "It goes with that corner office." A man who clearly cherishes power, Regan is even said to have joked last week about "people who thought they could get rid of me that easily...