Topic: Tom Harkin
For-profit colleges have increased their lobbying against proposed Education Department rules to cut off federal financial aid to programs whose...
The Register's coverage of the cost of infrastructure damages from this year's floods paints a grim picture for Iowa's budget in the coming years...
Colleges owned by Career Education Corp., Corinthian Colleges Inc., and Washington Post Co. have campuses where fewer than 20 percent of federal ...
ITT Educational Services was among the for-profit schools that declined. Shares slipped after a BMO Capital Markets analyst downgraded the sector...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Senate's education committee vowed new legislation to curb deceptive recruiting practices in the for-profit higher education industry.Committee chairman Tom Harkin called on Wednesday for stronger steps by lawma
Critics of the for-profit higher education industry may stand to gain financially from mouthing off about its colleges and universities, many of...
The proposed 0.25 percent securities transaction tax, or STT, is dead in Congress--at least for now. But opponents warn that the idea could be...
House passes pared-back tax and spending bill extending benefits for long-term joblessThe House has adopted a measure renewing unemployment benefits for people who have been without a job for at least six months.The jobless benefits are in a legislative g
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate was expected to appoint 12 senators, including banking committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, to a conference committee with the House of Representatives to hammer out a final Wall Street reform bill, said a source familiar
Senate hearing on mine disaster to focus on weakness in enforcement lawsThe Senate plans to explore weaknesses in federal mine safety laws when it convenes the first of a series of hearings this month on the deadly mining disaster in West Virginia ...
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