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To compensate for stalled negotiations on both health care legislation and a bill that would overhaul the country’s student loan program and improve college students’ access to federal aid, Democratic leaders proposed a solution yesterday that would move both of those hot-button issues forward—combine them, and pass them as one. Both the comprehensive health care bill, which would guarantee health insurance to 30 million uninsured Americans, and the student loan bill , which would replace private lending with direct lending through the government and increase Pell Grant maximums, have faced opposition as Democrats work to pass both through Congress before the November mid-term elections

Perhaps, for the time being, American colleges (see Harvard , Princeton , Yale , etc.) are among the most desirable in the world, but there is some concern that this might not always be so and that perhaps this shouldn’t be taken for granted. Before Toyota started shipping automobiles to the United states in ever-increasing quantities, General Motors ruled. The American car was king in the U.S.

As the number of returning and adult students continues to grow in an economy where advanced skills are necessary to not only land a good job but keep that job, it was only a matter of time when we’d start seeing more students in school at the same time as their parents. We’ve already written about growing community college enrollment .

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