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Opinion: The Student Loan 'Fix' Is No Fix at All

(March 26) -- Bolted to the health care bill is a student loan reform plan that backers say will make college more accessible to students and that critics call a government takeover of the student loan program. The overhaul may or may not make things better, but what we have now isn't good. But not for the reason either...

Opinion: Should Government Support Journalism? It Always Has

(Feb. 1) – Everyone knows from American history class that the First Amendment is the great protector of press freedom in the United States, barring Congress from "abridging" the sacred right to publish what you want to publish. So does that means there's a constitutional wall that separates government and the...

Background on government subsidies

A subsidy is an assistance paid to a business or economic sector. Most subsidies are made by the government to producers or distributed as subventions in an industry to prevent the decline of that industry (e.g., as a result of continuous unprofitable operations) or an increase in the prices of its products or simply to encourage it to hire more labor (as in the case of a wage subsidy).

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