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Rep. Dina Titus speaks at the College of Southern Nevada in Henderson Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009.
Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 | 1:55 a.m.
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Rep. Dina Titus held a back-to-school party of her own Tuesday afternoon at the College of Southern Nevada’s Henderson campus, where she highlighted congressional efforts to make higher education more affordable.
Speaking to a small crowd of students, faculty, parents and reporters, Titus (D-Nev.) discussed a handful of bills passed in recent months that aim to make borrowing for college easier and more affordable.
“As an educator, I know the value of an education,” said Titus, a former UNLV professor. “I saw it every day in the classroom. It is certainly the key to our being competitive in the global economy.”
Titus listed bills that will decrease interest rates on student loans from 6 percent to 3.4 percent by 2011, a repayment program that caps student loan payments based on an individual’s income, a $600 increase in Pell grants to $5,350, a $700 increase in the college income tax credit to $2,500, and a new GI Bill that will help veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq pay for college.
“I don’t have to tell you all that in recent years, as times have gotten tougher, the cost of a college education has gone up,” Titus said. “The more you need (an education) to prepare for a global economy, the harder it is to get.”
Sally Caspers, an Air Force veteran and graduate student at UNLV, said the new GI Bill is a reassuring gesture of support to veterans. She is a member of a committee at UNLV that is exploring how the university can better meet the needs of its veteran students, something Caspers cautioned will take more than money.
Caspers said the extra effort to help veteran students adjust to college life is well worth the investment, not just for the veterans, but for all students on campus.
“What we find is that (veterans) are valuable members of a campus community,” she said. “They’re valuable participants in classroom discussions and we want to make them feel welcome.”
Titus said she hopes the new GI Bill will also provide an economic benefit to the country, saying that the original GI Bill put $7 into the economy for every $1 it received.
“It would be nice to see that kind of return again so that we can see this as a ‘two-fer,’” she said.
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Each dollar the USA borrows means that will pay interest on, our children will pay interest from one generation to the next until the destruction of the USA.
Each dollar that we borrow accelrates that destruction day of the USA. That day will happen will the USA hits a tipping point where countries dump the dollar and people will not buy US Fed. bonds unless the interest rate is extremely high.
Hey all. Tune in to "Face to Face with Jon Ralston" this Friday, August 21. We are scheduled to interview U.S. Rep. Dina Titus about this, health care reform, her new 2010 challenger and much more. That's at 5:30pm, 6:30pm and 8pm on Las Vegas ONE, Cox Cable Channel 19.
Until we all start voting for Independents nothing changes. Support your Independent.
The problem is that these subsidies for higher education might be driving the tuition inflation, just like what happened with the housing market bubble.
That is, the government's attempts to make college more affordable are only making it more and more expensive.
I would like to thank Titus for her obvious platform. Name me one person who is for expensive education. I bet her next platform will be she is against infant binge drinking and mandatory killings of everyone over the age of 60.
These obvious platforms make you look like an idiot. How about you mention how to make education more affordable and not just that you support it. I tell you, many polticians are the same and this country needs a change...a real change. No matter if thay have a D, I, or R next to their name. If they have become ut of touch then vote them out!!!!
Next November, I hope, will be a lot of fun. Let us cross our fingers and pray.
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I can see why Titus took on the topics that she did in her "Back to School Party"
Gallup made it official a week ago that more American's are against Obama's healthcare plan than are for it.
http://www.gallup.com/video/122231/Obama...
@ reg373
No one says that government spending cannot create jobs. However, it does not create long term wealth or growth. The New Deal snowballed into a crutch by creating a horrible welfare system and a social security program that was not "pay in, take out".
Further, many New Deal programs used government funds to pay private companies to do the work. i.e., paying automakers to make planes etc. The commendeering of the healthcare system and Obama's Newer Deal would use government entities, already in place, to hire workers for these so called "road projects". This is even worse than FDR because government will continue to grow and the levels of governmental bureaucracy will get thicker and thicker.
Yep, another Democrat advocating more spending. Ah, but don't forget, SOMEONE has to pay for more spending. Yep, the tax payer. More taxes. Tax and spend, spend, and more spending. Every time we vote Democrats in power we get this. I sure would like to hear politicians who LISTEN to their constituents for starters, and legislate responsibility. Balanced budgets! Finally, I feel that until voters get rid of these politicians and elect responsible representatives for Nevada that we deserve the economical messes these politicians are leaving us with. WE HAVE TO WAKE UP!
Want the truth about the FDR legacy? Everything can be verified.
http://www.archive.org/details/TruthAbo1...
Titus is against healthcare but wants us to go to college?
She is a FRAUD
Look closely at Dina's outfit. When she was a state senator and an educator at UNLV, she ALWAYS wore that Nevada brooch. Now that she has become part of the Washington aristocracy and a loyal supporter of Reid and Pelosi, she has conveniently forgotten that her FIRST loyalties should be with Nevada. I can't wait to vote this lady out of office.
I like seeing our veterans come home and be able to get a college education at no cost to them. Some of these military people were in the National Guard and other reserves. They have been sent to active duty as many as three or four times totally disrupting their lives. This country put them in these wars and we owe them something for their service. As far as the other proposals by Dina, I don't agree. Her other proposals will do nothing to stop the colleges from continuing to raise their tuitions and expense to a student. The end result will be more tossed at the taxpayer. Of course that is my opinion and I could be wrong.