Paul Hunter Zaid
Online Journalism
Journal #12
5/6/2015
1) How Hillary Clinton Might Solve The Student Debt Crisis
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-hillary-clinton-might-solve-the-student-debt-crisis-153633224.html
Clinton announced her presidential bid a few weeks ago and has already is putting together a plan to tackle the student debt crisis. Clinton supports President Obama’s plan to make community college free, but stresses that more action is needed.
“Even if we were successful in making the costs directly associated with going to college free, there are all these other costs people have to figure out how to pay,” she said. “There are all these other costs, whether it’s books or online materials.”
In 2014 dollars, tuition rates increased 225% over the last three decades. The typical college graduate is shouldering a $30,000 debt load. And the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reported that complaints against student lenders were up 38%in 2014.
How would Clinton herself help make college more affordable to the public? In addition to free community college access, she vocally supported income-based repayment, decreasing overall tuition costs, making it easier to finance federal student loan debt, and developing more work-study programs
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2) Mayweather Takes Down Pacquiao
http://news.yahoo.com/mayweather-takes-100-million-check-runs-202934146–spt.html
Even if you were living under a rock for the past few weeks you would still have heard about the highly anticipated boxing fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. Despite not being the best fight ever it was the richest fight ever, with Mayweather pocketing a $100 million for his win, making it the richest single payday any athlete of any sport has made.
The boxing match was delayed for 30 minutes because pay-per-view sales were overwhelming cable and satellite systems, a good sign for the paydays of both fighters. It was another great defensive performance from a fighter who knows just what he has to do to win. Mayweather remained unbeaten in 48 fights in a career that has now stretched 19 years and plans to only box one more match in September before hanging up his clothes for good.
Tweet: Mayweather wins over Pacquiao and takes his $100 million check http://yhoo.it/1zGpoA1
3) US States Take Aim At NSA Over Unnecessary Surveillance
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32487971
This caught my eye… Jonathan Stickland, a Texas state representative has proposed a state law cutting off public utilities to Texas Cryptologic Center, an NSA facility located near San Antonio until the agency ceases what he says is unconstitutional warrantless electronic data collection. Finding the power and water to run massive NSA data centers without state help would be a challenge.
The Texas bill is just one of the most recent examples of a growing movement among states – both liberal and conservative – to end government support for NSA facilities. Last year California became the first to pass what’s been called a Fourth Amendment Protection Act. Its law prohibited the state from providing support to a federal agency “to collect electronically stored information or metadata of any person if the state has actual knowledge that the request constitutes an illegal or unconstitutional collection”.
This year 15 other states have introduced some kind of anti-NSA legislation, including politically diverse locations like liberal Washington and Maryland and conservative Oklahoma and Mississippi. The likelihood of these bills passing are slim, but the movement against NSA will regroup and a create new drafts if defeated.
Tweet: US states take aim at NSA over warrantless surveillance http://bbc.in/1FsLs1L
Media Bias
Despite a combined eight hours of air time on Wednesday, all three network morning shows ignored the revelation that 6400 “lost” e-mails from ex-IRS official Lois Lerner have been found.
ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning all avoided this development. Instead, the networks made time for frivolous, unimportant topics. Rather than focus on an attempt to cover-up government targeting of conservative groups.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/30/thousands-of-supposedly-lost-emails-from-irs-scandal-figure-lois-lerner-recovered/
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