New Orleans Congress is debating real limits on the amount of student aid that they will cover on for-profit colleges, since finally they have the memo that too many for-profits are fleecing the students and they are paying the bill both on the front end with $20 billion in student loans and on the back …
Month: June 2010
M&M’s for School Breakfast
Houston Listening to the reports in our all day, all union staff meeting in Houston, one caught my ear because at first couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Local 100 of the United Labor Unions has represented the bulk of the Houston support workers in the Houston Independent School District for over 18 years. The …
Jornaleros: Livelihoods and Public Safety
New Orleans My heart sank as I read the New York Times editorial in the wake of the 9th Circuit Appeals court upholding an ordinance crafted by the City of Redondo Beach (California) pushing day laborers off the streets in the name of traffic safety. The editorial said all of the right things, but when …