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Student Loans: Does Public Money Need Private Administration?
When the House passed the reconciliation bill Sunday, healthcare wasn’t the only subject. Also included was a massive overhaul of the student-loan program. Republicans call it a government takeover. What will saving more than $60 billion mean for struggling students? Also, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu tests President Obama’s White House diplomacy, and drugs and guns in the US and Mexico.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenWhen the House passed the reconciliation bill Sunday, healthcare wasn’t the only subject. Also included was a massive overhaul of the student-loan program. Republicans call it a government takeover. What will saving more than $60 billion mean for struggling students? Also, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu tests President Obama’s White House diplomacy, and three US cabinet officers, the head of intelligence and the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff all spent yesterday in Mexico.
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3 storiesNetanyahu Tests Obama's Resolve, White House Diplomacy
There was a total news blackout last night at the White House when President Obama met Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu — for two hours in two separate sessions. In public, there wasn't even a handshake. Glenn Kessler is diplomatic correspondent for the Washington Post .
Read the story7 minStudent Loans: Does Public Money Need Private Administration?
The scenario is all too familiar: increased demand and rising costs; diminishing revenues during a major recession. It's not healthcare, it's higher education. Yet -- almost without notice -- the two were packaged together in the reconciliation bill passed by the House on Sunday.
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The US Secretaries of State, Defense and Homeland Security all went to Mexico yesterday along with the Director of National Intelligence and the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It was all about a new strategy in the failing war on drugs.
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