State should support student loan reform
Shortly after President Obama pushed his health care reform through Congress, Idaho became the first state in a growing coalition rallying against the bill as an unconstitutional act of the Federal Legislature. At the same time, the state’s budget cuts to higher education are forcing college students to pay higher and higher tuition rates. How are these distinctly divergent concepts linked?
The answer is simple. The bill not only changed the face of health care in America — it also revamped the student loan system. “What’s gotten overlooked amid all the hoopla, all the drama of last week, is what’s happened with education,” Obama said in a speech at Northern Virginia Community College, reported by the New York Times.