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Senators debate need for transparency in higher education costs

Senators debate need for transparency in higher education costs

by Philip Lam | Nov 6, 2025 | Education, Featured

WASHINGTON – Senators clashed over the federal government’s role in helping families plan and pay for higher education, a process lawmakers have deemed “opaque,” at a Senate Health, Labor, Education and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing Thursday. The discussion...
Lawmakers agree legislation needed to protect DOD data in bipartisan consensus

Lawmakers agree legislation needed to protect DOD data in bipartisan consensus

by Aanika Sawhney | Oct 8, 2025 | Featured, National Security

WASHINGTON –  Democrats and Republicans expressed unified concerns on the need to protect Department of Defense personnel’s data during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday. Publicly available data across social media and other private information...
Census report on child support payments doesn’t account for income disparity

Census report on child support payments doesn’t account for income disparity

by Ellisya Lindsey | Jan 20, 2022 | Featured, Living

WASHINGTON — A semi-annual U.S. Census Bureau report on child support payments for the year 2017 fails to take into account the circumstances of parents with different levels of income, a practitioner said this week.  “We want to help people to have an appreciation...

Universities may be more vulnerable to data breaches

by Jessica Floum | Mar 18, 2014 | Education

  WASHINGTON — Mike King can’t come to terms with the fact that his Social Security number was stolen. The University of Maryland senior first heard about the data breach when he received a tip for The Diamondback, the student newspaper where he’s the...

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