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Article: HIGHER EDUCATION ACT CREATES HARDSHIPS FOR STUDENTS.(EDITORIAL)(Letter to the Editor)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- October 18, 2005
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Byline: Jessica Halpern-Finnerty student UW-Madison
Dear Editor: As a student at UW-Madison, one of the foremost public institutions of higher education in the country, I feel it is my responsibility to call attention to the potentially disastrous proposition currently before Congress. If the Higher Education Act is reauthorized with the current language intact, it will severely cut resources to higher education and therefore make college more expensive for millions of students.
The act includes the single largest cut in the history of student aid programs. House Resolution 609 eliminates in-school loan consolidation, makes fixed-rate loan consolidation ...