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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:07pm CDT
More financial aid options become available as colleges work to fill classes at the last minute.
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 3:17pm CDT
The city of Viroqua is in good financial shape, but may need to increase sewer and water rates to pay for projects that have been completed over the past couple of years.
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 9:19am CDT
The university’s Office of Financial Aid is in the process of sending letters and e-mail to almost 3,000 students, to alert them to changes in the ways their loans will be processed.
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 8:10am CDT
Jordan receives USD 360 million worth of foreign aid, amid hiking spending
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 6:44am CDT
Much to Felecia Obasuyi's relief, her family is getting more money for college this year. That's because the Pell Grant, the basic federal financial aid award, is increasing from $4,310 to $4,731 for the maximum annual award.
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 2:32am CDT
Students at the University of Iowa will be able to draw support from one more source now - the Office of Student Financial Aid. The office announced last Tuesday that it will make financial support available to students directly affected by flooding. The announcement was made via a news release on the university's flood blog.
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 1:04am CDT
Much to Felecia Obasuyi's relief, her family is getting more money for college this year. That's because the Pell Grant, the basic federal financial aid award, is increasing from $4,310 to $4,731 for the maximum annual award.
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Posted: June 30th, 2008, 12:03am CDT
Relatives of the passengers who died in the sinking of the MV Princess of the Stars off the coast of Romblon may now start claiming the P200,000 in financial assistance from the offices of ship owner Sulpicio Lines Inc. (SLI) in Manila and Cebu.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 11:57pm CDT
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office Sunday announced the release of some P13.25 million in financial assistance to provinces in the Visayas devastated by Typhoon “Frank” (international codename: Fengshen).
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 11:21pm CDT
A law set to take effect this week will boost need-based financial aid for millions of students.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 9:10pm CDT
THE Federal Opposition wants a national environmental emergency declared in the Lower Lakes region of the River Murray so struggling farmers can get financial aid.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 6:51pm CDT
A total of RM87,000 was raised during the “Food For Hope” charity campaign last month to provide financial aid to victims of the disaster-stricken regions of Myanmar and Chengdu, China.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:43pm CDT
Leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations are set to backtrack on their landmark pledge at the Gleneagles summit in 2005 to increase development aid to Africa to $25bn a year.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 5:42pm CDT
(ARA) - Looking to finish a degree or seeking a new one to advance your career? If you are, you're probably wondering how you'll pay for your education. You may be surprised to find out you could qualify for financial aid, in the form of tuition reimbursement from your employer.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 10:17am CDT
The city of Viroqua is in good financial shape, but may need to increase sewer and water rates to pay for projects that have been completed over the past couple of years.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 9:32am CDT
With the recent announcement of the requirements of Red Flag Legislation by the joint regulatory agencies of NCUA, FDIC, FTC, OCC, FRB, and the OTS, Merchants Information Solutions, Inc. (MIS) and NXG Strategies, LLC have joined forces once again to design solutions for financial institutions scrambling to meet the November 1, 2008 compliance deadline. (PRWeb Jun 29, 2008) Read the full story ...
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 6:37am CDT
Even with the start of college several weeks away, money can still be found for those who need more financial aid. One reason is that schools are also under extra pressure and working harder to fill their freshman classes this year as students make late switches because of costs.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 6:09am CDT
SOUTH BEND -- Madison Center plans to close its money-losing downtown residential facility and move its 55 mental health patients into another institution across town, but that facility also appears to be on shaky financial ground, a Tribune investigation has found.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 3:05am CDT
A 59-cents-an-hour raise last year pushed Faith and Mike Kovacs from fragile financial stability into a tailspin -- again.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 2:30am CDT
More financial aid options become available as colleges work to fill classes at the last minute.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 2:01am CDT
With the recent announcement of the requirements of Red Flag Legislation by the joint regulatory agencies of NCUA, FDIC, FTC, OCC, FRB, and the OTS, Merchants Information Solutions, Inc. (MIS) and NXG Strategies, LLC have joined forces once again to design solutions for financial institutions scrambling to meet the November 1, 2008 compliance deadline.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 1:04am CDT
THE Federal Opposition wants a national environmental emergency declared in the lower lakes region of the River Murray in South Australia so struggling farmers can get financial aid.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 12:54am CDT
Students headed to college -- and the families who support them -- have plenty of financial decisions to make right now, from paying tuition to finding financial aid.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 12:28am CDT
ISLAMABAD: World Bank’s annual financial assistance to Pakistan has declined drastically from the level of $1.2bn in the fiscal 2006-07 to $600mn during the outgoing financial year ending June 30, official sources said yesterday.
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Posted: June 29th, 2008, 12:26am CDT
Crunching the numbers on college costs has been a particularly grim task for parents of incoming freshmen this year. The weak economy has strained their cash resources and the nationwide mortgage
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 7:19pm CDT
BAHRAINI political societies have pledged financial aid to families of prisoners who claim they were abused in custody.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 4:50am CDT
WASHINGTON -- Southern Nevada health officials may face a financial squeeze after Congress failed to come through with $5 million to defray costs of responding to the hepatitis C health crisis in Las Vegas, officials said Friday.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 2:52am CDT
NORMAL -- The waiting is over. Normal-based Unit 5 and Bloomington District 87 school districts received their last fiscal 2008 general state aid payments Friday along with other school districts across Illinois. “We’re good to go,” said Jim Gillmeister, chief financial officer/treasurer for Unit 5 schools.
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Posted: June 28th, 2008, 2:15am CDT
The city council approved a plan Friday to correct 23 errors found during a 2007 audit, including a significant problem declaring the city has poorly maintained its general financial ledger.
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Posted: June 27th, 2008, 10:18pm CDT
NORMAL — The waiting is over. Normal-based Unit 5 and Bloomington District 87 school districts received their last fiscal 2008 general state aid payments Friday along with other school districts across Illinois.
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Posted: June 27th, 2008, 8:37pm CDT
The drugstore operator Rite Aid posted a quarterly loss as it continued to spend heavily to absorb more than 1,850 newly acquired stores.
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Posted: June 27th, 2008, 6:18pm CDT
While many Iowans will file for aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency or from the state, international students will not join them. Because international students reside in the United States on a temporary visa, they are not eligible for cash assistance from FEMA.
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Posted: June 27th, 2008, 5:48am CDT
S1 Enterprise, a division of S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: SONE - News) and a leading provider of multichannel financial services software, and Verint Systems Inc. today announced a partnership agreement.
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Posted: June 27th, 2008, 5:45am CDT
The Federal Government of Nigeria has secured yet another financial aid to the tune of N554 million (526 Japanese Yen) for the improvement of medium wave radio broadcasting network in the country.
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Posted: June 27th, 2008, 2:17am CDT
KYOTO, Japan (Thomson Financial) - The Group of Eight foreign ministers called Friday on Myanmar to lift all remaining restrictions on cyclone aid and to free political detainees including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Posted: June 26th, 2008, 3:44pm CDT
State Representative Donna Seidel, (D) Wausau, is reaching out to Wisconsin's congressional leaders in Washington to get federal aid for our cash-strapped state. Rep. Seidel held a press conference Thursday in Marathon County, outlining the financial struggles Wisconsin is facing.
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Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 4:32pm CDT
Venturehaus, a specialist management consultancy working within financial services, gathered many of its colleagues and friends together at a reception for ex-servicemen and colleagues that now work in the Financial Sector in aid of Help for Heroes.
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Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 4:20pm CDT
Midwest waits for Mississippi River to reach crest; FEMA sets up aid portal
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Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 11:59am CDT
Dane County residents and businesses can now apply for federal financial aid from FEMA. The county, along with Juneau and Ozaukee counties, was added Saturday to the list of 22 counties included in the disaster declaration. "The FEMA declaration means some much-needed relief for the victims of the recent floods and storms," Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk said. Individuals, including ...
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Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 11:33am CDT
CollegeWeekLive (http://www.collegeweeklive.com), the largest virtual college fair, today announced additional details on its upcoming "Paying for College" event, an interactive, online-only forum and exposition being held July 10, 2008. This virtual event will provide a unique, FREE resource to help parents, students and financial aid administrators find creative and affordable ways to fund ...
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Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 6:00am CDT
Even if it is law, the legal aid which gives the deprived people the possibility of being defended or to attack in justice does not seem to have been definitively installed in the Rwandan legal system.
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Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 5:29am CDT
With a high level meeting on aid effectiveness set to take place later this year in Accra, Ghana, participants at the eighth CIVICUS Assembly here in the Scottish capital want donors to stop dictating how aid should be used, and instead let it be driven by the needs of the people it is intended for.
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Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 4:24am CDT
CEDAR FALLS — A pair of measures to address concerns about flooding made the agenda for the City Council meeting Monday.
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Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 3:02am CDT
For many college students, connecting to a network of friends and family is as easy as a few clicks of a mouse. Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have revolutionized the way people communicate, and for the current college generation, the sites have become an integral part of daily life.
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Posted: June 21st, 2008, 6:46pm CDT
KUCHING: Registered youth associations in Sarawak will soon receive financial assistance from the Youth and Sports Ministry to help them plan and carry out their activities.
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Posted: June 19th, 2008, 9:00pm CDT
TEXAS CITY — The financial aid office and its director at College of the Mainland are under scrutiny, the district attorney’s office confirmed.
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Posted: June 8th, 2008, 3:09am CDT
NEW YORK -- When Tim Huval and his wife decided to adopt, they got financial aid, moral support and legal counseling from a seemingly unlikely source: his employer.
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Posted: June 8th, 2008, 2:27am CDT
There are plenty of reasons to encourage a teenager to take a summer job. It builds responsibility, provides a glimpse into the work world, develops credentials for the next job and — of course — it produces some spending money.
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Posted: June 8th, 2008, 1:17am CDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As elite private schools pledge to eliminate or reduce student debt by boosting financial aid, a small Pennsylvania liberal arts college is trying to encourage more families to save for college.
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Posted: June 7th, 2008, 10:40pm CDT
If we break an arm, a hospital emergency room with trained staff is available to help. When a hawk breaks a wing, there isn’t any aid - unless the bird is found by a human and taken to a wildlife rehabilitator.
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Posted: June 7th, 2008, 9:49pm CDT
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency will continue next week collecting applications from people seeking financial assistance after the April 4 tornadoes in Hinds County.
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Posted: June 7th, 2008, 5:41pm CDT
As nearly 10 million kids pack their trunks and prepare for color wars, summer camps brace for a season of truncated field trips, shorter sessions and more financial aid.
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Posted: June 7th, 2008, 3:22pm CDT
This year Cornell received a record number of student applications, conferred the first M.D. degrees ever given abroad by an American medical school, developed a new financial-aid policy to make its education more affordable and completed a strategic plan to articulate priorities, said President David J. Skorton, speaking to a full house of alumni and friends in Bailey Hall, June 7.
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Posted: June 7th, 2008, 3:22pm CDT
In a banner year, Cornell received a record number of student applications, conferred the first M.D. degrees ever given abroad by an American medical school, developed a new financial-aid policy to make its education more affordable and completed a strategic plan to articulate priorities, said President David J. Skorton, speaking to a full house of alumni and friends in Bailey Hall, June 7, ...
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Posted: June 7th, 2008, 4:33am CDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As elite private schools pledge to eliminate or reduce student debt by boosting financial aid, a small Pennsylvania liberal arts college is trying to encourage more families to save for college.
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Posted: June 6th, 2008, 9:17pm CDT
HANOI: The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry will study the impact of the fuel price increase before deciding whether to raise aid for the disabled and poor.
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Posted: June 6th, 2008, 11:38am CDT
As the opening of classes nears, the Department of Education gets a timely boost as the Australian Government has earmarked approximately P494 million to the agency to provide larger financial support for the departments Basic Education Basic Sector Reform Agenda (Besra).
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Posted: June 6th, 2008, 8:03am CDT
Since Dionasis "Jojo" Saguid sneaked into Iraq without proper documents, the Overseas Workers" Welfare Administration (OWWA) reportedly said it could not automatically give his family any financial help.
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Posted: June 5th, 2008, 12:43pm CDT
A grant is money awarded to a student for the purpose of paying for college and does not have to be paid back. The Pell Grant is primarily awarded to students who show the greatest financial need on their FAFSA. The Cost of Attendance minus the student's Expected Family Contribution determines the amount of the grant. Grant amount is also based on the number of credits the student is enrolled in ...
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Posted: June 4th, 2008, 5:28pm CDT
A former Yale University student accused of lying to get into the esteemed school pleads guilty to larceny.
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Posted: June 4th, 2008, 10:24am CDT
YANGON (Thomson Financial) - US warships laden with supplies for Myanmar's cyclone victims will sail away after the junta refused their help, while aid workers Wednesday pleaded for more help to reach about a million survivors.
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Posted: June 4th, 2008, 7:22am CDT
NEW YORK (Thomson Financial) - Rite Aid Corp. Wednesday said it commenced a cash tender offer for senior secured notes with a total principal amount of $710 million.
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Posted: June 4th, 2008, 6:24am CDT
BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - The European Commission said its inquiries into aid for German banks IKB Deutsche Industriebank A.G. and West LB are continuing.
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Posted: June 4th, 2008, 5:53am CDT
BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - The European Commission said it has approved 297.7 million euros Polish government-led aid granted for the construction of airports in Lublin and Gdansk.
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Posted: June 4th, 2008, 5:24am CDT
BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - The European Commission has asked Hungary to end long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) for electricity, arguing they constitute incompatible state aid to the power generators.
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Posted: June 4th, 2008, 5:24am CDT
BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - The European Commission said it has authorised 46 million euros of state aid granted by France to the Genesis research and development programme, which is being implemented by a consortium of 17 partners headed by French chemicals group Arkema SA.
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Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 7:04am CDT
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Financial support for students at North Carolina community colleges needs to be strengthened, a new study says.
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Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 12:53am CDT
The following op - ed will appear in a print edition of The Crimson the week of June 2. This was a year unlike any other for admissions and financial aid at Harvard.
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Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 12:03am CDT
UNITED NATIONS ? Secretary-General Ban, walking a political tightrope as he seeks to take control of international aid delivery to Burma without offending its ruling junta, is planning a visit to the cyclone-ravaged country this week. In tough negotiations over the weekend, Mr. Ban came close to cancelling his participation in a planned donor conference for Burma after representatives of the ...
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Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 10:38pm CDT
Officials from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Pitt County are seeking financial aid from the county to help relocate the program in Ayden.
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Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 2:16pm CDT
FAYETTEVILLE -- Students at Fayetteville State University were charged too much for financial aid in 2007, the final year of former Chancellor T.J. Bryan's tenure at the university, according to state auditors.
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Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 12:47pm CDT
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- State auditors say students at Fayetteville State University were charged too much for financial aid in 2007, the final year of former Chancellor T.J. Bryan's tenure at the university.
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Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 11:02am CDT
State auditors said that students at Fayetteville State University were charged too much for financial aid in 2007, the final year of former Chancellor T.J. Bryan's tenure at the university.
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Posted: June 1st, 2008, 11:04pm CDT
A state audit released Friday found students were overcharged for financial aid and 13 other problems during the last year of former Chancellor T.J. Bryan’s era at Fayetteville State University.
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Posted: June 1st, 2008, 7:08pm CDT
S. Raseetha Vani was grateful for the RM1,500 she received from Tunku Naquiyuddin recently.
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Posted: June 1st, 2008, 5:49am CDT
NEW YORK -- When Tim Huval and his wife decided to adopt, they got financial aid, moral support and legal counseling from a seemingly unlikely source: his employer.