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Tag: Dick Durbin
COVID-19
Amid Pandemic, For-Profit Colleges Look to Increase Enrollments
As the coronavirus has shut college campuses and forced them to provide online instruction, several of the country’s largest for-profit colleges are looking to boost enrollments and targeting unemployed workers who may be thinking of going back to school, reported the Associated Press. Many of these for-profits have increased advertising and are offering discounts for […]
April 21, 2020
COVID-19
Democratic Senators Say For-Profit Colleges Shouldn’t Get Further Stimulus Aid
Democratic Senators Dick Durbin and Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday called on Senate leaders to ensure that for profit-colleges do not receive any more coronavirus stimulus aid in further rounds of relief legislation, reported Politico. Last month, Congress allotted more than $1 billion to for-profit colleges as part of a $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package, reported […]
April 21, 2020
Opinion
Recent Trump Comments Smack of Racism
Last week, a number of journalists, radio hosts, pundits and ordinary folk have worked themselves into an understandable frenzy over President Donald Trump’s alleged reference to Haiti, Nigeria, El Salvador and other Third World countries as “shithole” nations. He did not stop there. He argued that the United States should make an effort to recruit immigrants from Norway. Just think about it! The statement alone speaks volumes. It is the most blatant and arrogant form of racism.
January 16, 2018
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