When it comes to community and vocational schools, Obama sees them as essential to providing local students with the skills they need and intends to reward community colleges that increase their graduates and transfers to four-year colleges. McCain focuses on retraining workers. Read more about how the two candidates intend to support community schools and […]
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Aram Zucker-Scharff
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Tax credit programs allow those applicable for a credit to subtract the value from their annual tax payment, or claim it as a deduction. So if you were required to pay $5,000 in taxes this year and you received the $4,000 tax credit that Obama proposes for students, you would only have to pay $1,000 […]
Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by Aram Zucker-Scharff
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Senators John McCain and Barack Obama have had plenty to say about Wall Street and Main Street, but they have said little about how the economic situation makes it difficult for students who want to live on University Row. Though college students are expected to be a deciding factor in a number of states, including […]
Posted on October 21st, 2008 by Aram Zucker-Scharff
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ABC’s John Stossel briefs viewers on some of the big issues in the election in a 20/20 special series The Politically Incorrect Guide to Politics. YouTube videos are below and you can find higher quality video at the 20/20 website. What People in Power Can Do and “Rinkonomics”
Posted on October 21st, 2008 by Aram Zucker-Scharff
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More than 200 people crowded into the Johnson Center Atrium to watch the third and final presidential debate between Candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. Leading into their final meeting, hopes were high that gloves would come off and answers would be pointed. Although there were moments where it seemed that such hopes would come […]
Posted on October 15th, 2008 by Christian Yingling
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Posted on October 15th, 2008 by Christian Yingling
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When Hurricane Katrina ravaged America’s Gulf Coast, it laid bare an uncomfortable reality—America is not only far from the world’s wealthiest nation; it is crumbling beneath a staggering burden of individual and government debt. Maxed Out takes us on a journey deep inside the American debt-style, where everything seems okay as long as the minimum […]
Posted on October 15th, 2008 by Aram Zucker-Scharff
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Posted on October 15th, 2008 by Christian Yingling
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Mason Votes’ roundtable podcast with representatives from Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University. Are there “women’s issues?” If so, what are they? Download Now!
Posted on October 14th, 2008 by Christian Yingling
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George Mason University will be holding a debate watch party for the third and last presidential debate. The event start at 8 p.m. in the Johnson Center Atrium with a live panel of three speakers and will be followed by CSPAN coverage of the debate at 9 p.m. The panel’s speakers will be Bassam Haddad, […]
Posted on October 14th, 2008 by Aram Zucker-Scharff
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