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Veterans
VA Error Dashes Veteran’s Hopes for Education
VENTURA, Calif. – The Veterans Administration has struggled with bad press in recent years and our Tipline story won’t do anything to change that. We focus on the V.A.’s G.I. Bill and how one big mistake could put a local vet out on the streets. Harold Boons served his country for 34 years. “I got […]
May 30, 2017
Other News
Tennessee Hopes Free Tuition for Guard Will Attract Recruits
Tennessee officials have been working this week to promote the state’s new free tuition plans. One program is designed not only to boost college enrollment. It might also help get people into the military. Members of the Tennessee National Guard previously received up to two years of free education at a state community college, which […]
May 30, 2017
Academics
DOD Budget Boosts Some Services for Military, Cuts Others
Military family support programs would see a $600 million boost under President Trump’s proposed budget, but the request comes with a $100 million cut in funding for child care and youth programs despite calls from families for more support in those areas. Family support programs would receive $8.3 billion in fiscal 2018 under the proposal, […]
May 30, 2017
Other News
University Leaders Trumpet Alternative Programs
Channing Tatum went to Harvard Business School. He was classmates with LL Cool J. Tyra Banks, too, posed for a photo by the Business School’s Centennial Bell when she attended courses there. “Smiling ear2ear on the Harvard Business School campus w/ my diploma!” the model and TV personality Tweeted. But none of these celebrities who […]
May 30, 2017
Other News
Nevada Law Protects Students If For-Profits Close
LINCOLN, Neb. — A new state law allows students at Nebraska’s for-profit colleges to be protected financially if those schools suddenly close. Under the measure passed May 16 and signed into law by the governor a week later, student records from for-profit schools that close will be sent to the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. […]
May 30, 2017
Policy
Trump Weighs Shifting Student Loan Oversight to Treasury
The Trump administration is considering moving responsibility for overseeing more than $1 trillion in student debt from the Education Department to the Treasury Department, a switch that would radically change the system that helps 43 million students finance higher education. The potential change surfaced in a scathing resignation memo sent late Tuesday night by James […]
May 30, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Everyone I Know Is Worried”
Dr. Juan Z. Montes recalls the surge of people who came calling, beginning about two years ago. “We couldn’t handle them all,” he said, referring to the new patients who visited his four Southern California clinics after they got health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Montes, 67, who’s been doctoring in L.A. for four […]
May 30, 2017
Other News
Choice for Mental Health Czar Highlights Rift
For decades, therapists, patient advocates and countless families have worked to elevate mental health care in the political conversation. Their cause recently received a big boost when a new law created a federal mental health “czar” to help overhaul the system and bridge more than 100 federal agencies concerned with mental health. But the White […]
May 30, 2017
Other News
FDA Clears Cancer Drug Keyed to Genetics
Merck & Co’s immunotherapy Keytruda chalked up another approval on Tuesday as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the cancer medicine can be used to treat children and adults who carry a specific genetic feature regardless of where the disease originated. It is the first time the agency has approved a cancer treatment based […]
May 30, 2017
Other News
GOP Wants to Improve Indian Healthcare
Congressional Republicans believe they can improve Indian Health Service – and the first step is to cut money from the already underfunded IHS budget. IHS provides primary health care for the majority of Native Americans and Alaskan Natives. “For years, the Indian Health Service has fallen short in providing high quality medical care throughout Indian […]
May 30, 2017
Disparities
Alzheimers’s Deaths Double in U.S.
The rate of people dying from Alzheimer’s disease in the United States rose by 55% over a 15-year period, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. The number of those patients dying at home from the neurodegenerative condition also rose, from 14% to 25% over the same time period studied, 2009-2014. […]
May 30, 2017
Other News
Job Losses Highlight Budget Concerns
(CNN) – Criticism is building over the Trump administration’s proposed budget. The primary sticking point is because reports show it could result in the millions losing healthcare benefits and, as a result, thousands of healthcare providers losing their jobs. Eastern Kentucky would be ground zero for those job losses. Dr. Anthony Yonts employs 50 people […]
May 30, 2017
Policies
Senate Staffers Will Draft Healthcare Bill
Maybe, in the end, the safest stance for beleaguered House Republicans would be emulate the aggressive truth-defying approach of Trump himself: “What health care bill?” “That means the House has to come back with a new bill and vote again”, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from NY, said Wednesday. Additionally the bill would […]
May 30, 2017
Policies
Trump Tweet Contradicts His Budget
President Trump urged spending more on health care, in a tweet Sunday night — to “make it the best anywhere” — even as his administration’s budget proposal last week called for broad cuts to health programs, including Medicaid, public health, and medical research funding. It’s unclear what, if anything, Trump’s tweet means for his administration’s […]
May 30, 2017
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Veterans Groups Pushing for Post-9/11 GI Bill Improvements
Veterans associations want to revise the Post-9/11 GI Bill so that it benefits a wider range of veterans who are transitioning into higher education or future careers.
May 29, 2017
Students
Advocates View HBCUs’ Future Warily
TMCF President Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. suggested that HBCUs and their advocates need to begin planning what the institutions need to look like 50 years from now, to ensure they are keeping up with the constant changes in the generations to come.
May 29, 2017
Opinion
My Diversity Moment with the Military
At the Army National Guard, celebration of diversity is more than lip service because over there people seem to know diversity is an essential part of its core mission. And, on top of that, they know it really works.
May 29, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Tuskegee University Fires President Johnson
Tuskegee University — the private Alabama institution founded by Booker T. Washington — has fired its current president.
May 29, 2017
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