Posts by Tyler Kingkade
Student loan defaults escalate as Obama, Republicans push Pell Grant cuts
As Republicans and the Obama administration seek cuts to the Pell Grant system, a new federal tracking system shows that student loan defaults are on the rise. For students who began repaying their loans in 2008, 13.8 percent have since defaulted. For-profit institutions had 25 percent of their graduates defaulting after three years, while public four-year colleges had 10.8 percent of their graduates defaulting after three years.
Fox draws outrage after connecting student’s suicide with Obama speech
The article titled “GWU Student’s Suicide Tragically Coincides With
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Pawlenty staffer arrested after trying to enter Iowa home
An Alabama man employed by the Pawlenty Exploratory Committee was arrested early Wednesday morning for allegedly trying to enter a home in Ankeny, Iowa.
Rep. Davnie on Pawlenty’s 2012 prospects: Youth voters won’t like his education record
Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty thinks he has what it takes to steal the youth vote away from President Barack Obama, but Democrats are hitting back.
Pawlenty to Trump: Stop the birtherism
Likely 2012 Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty said Tuesday that billionaire Donald Trump needs to stop questioning President Obama’s birth location. “I, for one, believe that we should not be raising that issue in the sense that I think President Obama was born in the United States,” Pawlenty said Tuesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program. “I’m not playing into that.”
Pawlenty in Iowa: Obama swung and missed on spending cuts
ANKENY, Iowa — Appearing at a book signing at a Christian bookstore Sunday, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty criticized President Obama for not significantly addressing spending cuts during his State of the Union address last week. “He stepped to the plate, he swung the bat and he whiffed badly,” Pawlenty said.
Bachmann flirts with 2012 run while in Iowa
“It should be no shock a girl comes here,” Rep. Michele Bachmann told audiences in Des Moines Friday. “I know that there’s been a lot of speculation, though, about why I’m coming to Iowa today and I don’t want to keep you in suspense one more minute. Because it is with pride in my heart that I am here to announce tonight in Iowa… it’s really good to be home.”
Bachmann in Iowa: ‘America is under attack’
Rep. Michele Bachmann warned guests of an event organized by Iowans for Tax Relief Friday night that America is “under attack” by a “thundercloud of debt weighing upon [the U.S.].” Bachmann, who is openly mulling a run for the Republican presidential nomination, repeatedly discussed with a crowd of around 150 at a Des Moines hotel her doubts that the U.S. would continue as a great nation under the policies of the current government.
