AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) – The Maine Senate has signed off on bills that seek to ease student debt load and help schools retain students until graduation. One of the bills would allow students to claim the Educational Opportunity Tax Credit. Supporters say the move will help students stay in Maine and pay off student debt.…
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) The Maine Senate has signed off on bills that seek to ease student debt load and help schools retain students until graduation. One of the bills would allow students to claim the Educational Opportunity Tax Cr… Read the full article at: http://www.theeagle.com/news/nation/maine-senate-oks-bills-to-help-students-graduate-pay-debt/article_67b4d4e1-caf4-55bd-b89c-4af8c78d2fb9.html
A new wave of activism against student debt is on the move again this week. The students taking the lead represent the advance guard of an even more massive army which is mobilizing around the idea that higher education should be an investment we make as a society. And that new movement is warning that…
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he’s “thrifty” and is offering T-shirts for craft projects while asking donors to help pay off the $1.2 million debt from his short-lived presidential campaign. The Republican sent an email to donors Sunday saying, “if there is one thing the American people learned about me during our presidential campaign, it…
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is claiming to be thrifty in an email asking supporters to help him pay off more than $1 million in presidential campaign debt. Walker spent more than $90,000 a day on his 70-day run for president. Walker said in the fundraising plea sent Sunday that, “If there is one thing the…
(Illustration by Peter Arkle) It was an otherwise unremarkable day in mid-February when nascent computer scientist Evan Maynard received some tremendous news. In a meeting with his boss, Maynard, who will graduate from St. Marys University this spring, learned that the company where he had been working part-time for nearly a year wanted to help…
By Lauren McMah of news.com.au, Melissa Nightingale A Whanganui woman stole more than $28,000 from her employer and left a note explaining she had done it to pay off gambling debt. The gambling addiction “stemmed from boredom” after Kelly-Ann Webster had a stroke, defence lawyer Anna Brosnahan told Whanganui District Court. Webster, 43, was in…
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Glencore Plcs $2.5 billion agriculture deal is another milestone to solving Chief Executive Officer Ivan Glasenbergs biggest problem last year reducing a mountain of debt. Canadas biggest pension fund will buy a 40 percent stake in the agriculture business and Glencore said it may sell an additional 20 percent, which could be worth $1.25 billion based…