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		<title>Schools across the nation are looking for their own bailout</title>
		<link>http://freecollegeblog.com/2010/05/29/schools-looking-for-bailout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 09:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a 100,000 teaching jobs on the line, president Obama is looking for Congressional support for the latest bailout of the public school system.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama donates Nobel prize money directly to college charities</title>
		<link>http://freecollegeblog.com/2010/03/12/obama-donates-directly-to-college-charities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has announced the recipients of his Nobel Prize charitable donations, and groups that work to advance higher education are obviously a top priority as they're receiving the largest part of his prize money.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Calls for more Pell Grants</title>
		<link>http://freecollegeblog.com/2010/01/28/obama-pell-grants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama took time in his State of the Union Speech to outline his vision for the future of Pell Grants.  Unfortunately, the president's spoken ideals may not match the political reality in Congress.]]></description>
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		<title>Congress May Cut Banks from Student Loan Business</title>
		<link>http://freecollegeblog.com/2009/09/17/cutting-banks-student-loan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Student loan businesses may soon be losing out on a huge piece of guaranteed profitability.  The House of Representatives has recently passed a bill that would cut out private lenders who current act as subsidized intermediaries.]]></description>
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		<title>FAFSA Reform Makes Financial Aid Application Easier</title>
		<link>http://freecollegeblog.com/2009/06/24/fafsa-application-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Financial Aid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) has often been criticised for inefficiency and redundancy - but thanks to some recent reforms the process may become easier than ever.]]></description>
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		<title>Stimulus improves outlook for teaching jobs</title>
		<link>http://freecollegeblog.com/2009/05/19/education-outlook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 10:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite early projections of massive job cuts and department closures, some states and districts are revising their education outlook now that federal stimulus funds have begun to work into the system.]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Scholarship Survives at Reduced Rate</title>
		<link>http://freecollegeblog.com/2009/04/30/florida-scholarship-survives-at-reduced-rate/</link>
		<comments>http://freecollegeblog.com/2009/04/30/florida-scholarship-survives-at-reduced-rate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida's Bright Futures Scholarship will survive for at least another year - but it will not be able to cover this year's increase in tuition costs at in-state public universities.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Talks Student Loan Reform</title>
		<link>http://freecollegeblog.com/2009/04/29/obama-student-loan-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government and Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, Obama held a press conference to announce his intention toward reforming the public subsidy of student loans.  Carrying on momentum begun in 2006 and in the midst of credit market disruptions, Obama's plan would virtually eliminate the middle-man of private banking from the publicly backed part of the student loan market. ]]></description>
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		<title>California Teachers Losing Jobs Amid Budget Cuts</title>
		<link>http://freecollegeblog.com/2009/03/13/california-teaching-job-cuts/</link>
		<comments>http://freecollegeblog.com/2009/03/13/california-teaching-job-cuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teachers in California are facing a massive wave of job losses and layoffs.  As many as 26,000 educators may find themselves out of work soon.  The news compounds prior announcements that grant and tax refund payments had to be suspended, and the economy seems to have a grudge against funding for education.]]></description>
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		<title>Students in England Protest for Free College</title>
		<link>http://freecollegeblog.com/2009/02/27/students-in-england-protest-for-free-college/</link>
		<comments>http://freecollegeblog.com/2009/02/27/students-in-england-protest-for-free-college/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stories of students organizing and protesting for political purposes have been on the rise with the arrival of a new, more politically active generation.  In England, a recent protest brought hundreds of students together to argue for the cause of free college education.]]></description>
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