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London Students Protest Tuition Hike Vote [VIDEO]
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Dec. 9) -- Student protesters took to the streets of central London today to oppose a proposed plan that, if passed by Parliament, would triple university tuition fees in Britain. Despite nationwide demonstrations and opposition from some Liberal Democrats, who are also part of the Conservatives' governing coalition, the increase is expected to pass. The move is part of a broader austerity effort to reduce the country's budget deficit. "The real danger for the government is not that they won't pass it through, but that it will be a policy fiasco," London School of Economics professor ...
Students Clash With Police in London Tuition Protest
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
LONDON (Nov. 24) -- British students have once again taken to the streets to protest government plans to triple university fees and slash state funding for further education. Police have surrounded thousands of demonstrators near London's Houses of Parliament. A police van abandoned by officers in the middle of the crowd was attacked by a small mob, who rocked the vehicle back and forth, smashed its windshield with wooden poles and spray-painted an anarchist sign on the roof. However, soon after the attack began, other students formed a human chain around the vehicle to prevent further ...
Endangered: That Off-to-College Feeling
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThere's a chill in the air, and I'm reminded of an experience I never really had. Like nearly every woman my age, I saw the 1970 film "Love Story," set in a place that, compared to my blue-collar suburb in Dallas, looked magical. Houses had two stories, a street ends at an ocean, leaves turned crimson, and snow covered everything. Plus, you could fall in love with a handsome man with a Roman numeral name. Oliver Barrett IV was Old Money. In my neighborhood, there was no Old Money. Or New Money either, for that matter. The 1969 movie "The Sterile Cuckoo," filmed at Hamilton College in New ...
Opinion: Administrative Bloat Drives College Costs
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 23) -- As college students start returning to campus they -- and their parents -- face a troubling fact: Higher education costs have been rising so fast in recent years that they're going up even faster than health care costs. Since 1982, the average cost of college tuition and fees has increased by 439 percent, while the typical family's income increased by a mere 147 percent. College has been put financially out of reach from some students, while crushing others with debt. But even more troubling is the cause of these skyrocketing costs: administrative bloat. In fact, as a new ...
Where the Poor Pay the Most Unfair Share of Taxes
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 19) -- The tax code is unfair and it's the poor and the middle class who are getting the raw end of the deal. Those are some of the conclusions of a new study released by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan research group. The report found that after itemized deductions, the richest 1 percent of Americans pay taxes at an average rate of 5.2 percent of their income. Middle-class residents, on average, pay taxes at a rate of 9.4 percent, and the poorest 20 percent pay at a rate of 10.9 percent. "In effect, what we have is an upside-down system in which the more ...
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