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Republicans Declare War On Higher Education

The GOP's tax rewrite hits higher education hard, but new legislation House Republicans are crafting will likely go even farther to worsen the damage. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the House education committee recently gave a preview to its new legislation, a...

GOP Takes War On Learning Into Senate Tax Plan, States

As the Republican-controlled Congress continues to advance tax plans that slash funding from public education, a new report reveals how state and local government officials, especially where GOP leadership dominates, have continued a decade-long campaign to keep...

The GOP Tax Plan Is a Declaration of War on Learning

"Top-down class warfare" is what economist Paul Krugman calls the new Republican tax plans being drawn up in Congress, because both plans in the House and Senate propose "huge tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy" and eliminate scores of "credits and exemptions...

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