Every bit counts: Tax exemption could save students cash
Earlier this year, both houses of the Michigan legislature discussed proposals to exempt college textbooks from the state's 6 percent sales tax. The law would amend the 1933 General Sales Tax Act that makes food and prescription drugs tax-exempt. However, the state legislature has been slow to act on any of these proposals. The longer they wait, the more students must endure the already significant financial burdens of a college education.
Working it out: Job training would assist state
In a time when balanced budgets and downsizing social programs are the political vogue, welfare programs find themselves threatened. Recipients face large hurdles in maintaining the financial support they receive from the government - especially in Michigan, where recipients have a limited amount of time until their benefits are cut off. In order to get people off welfare and prevent the mandatory cut-off period from hurling them deeper into poverty, it is important that the state sponsor job training and placement programs.
Didn't get in? Hire a powerful law firm and sue the 'U'
There are two words to describe the two students who were named as plaintiffs in the recent lawsuit against the University's admission policies: sore losers.
While they are now symbols for those who believe affirmative action has no place in American education (and I am certainly not going to get into a philosophical debate about its detriments or merits, as there are many of both), it is ambiguous whether the two are champions of the cause or merely disgruntled at their college application process.
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