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Students and perspective students at the National Labor College (NLC) have a new option to help pay their tuition and other education expenses. The NLC has been approved to offer federal financial aid to its students.
NLC President William Scheuerman says the availability of federal student loans and grants for NLC students will provide more working adults with
the opportunity to complete their college degree. Our college offers online programming, affordable, union subsidized tuition and low-cost credit assessment. Our goal is to remove the obstacles that working adults, many with full-time jobs and families, face when considering completing their college degrees.
The NLC will begin accepting applications for federal financial aid on its website (click here) July 6. Students must be admitted into the Bachelor of arts or Bachelor of Technical Professional Studies program and establish attendance in a minimum of six credit hours (half-time status) a semester to be eligible for a federal student loan. Students may be eligible for federal grants with less than half-time status.
Currently the NLC offers a variety of financial aid options for students including scholarships. Click here for more information.
Students considering attending the fall semester, which begins Sept. 8, must complete their application materials 30 days prior to the start of the semester. (Click here for more information an NLC applications.)
Applications will be received and processed by the NLC Office of Student Financial Services in partnership with Weber & Associates Inc. Loan certification and funding typically takes three to five weeks and can cover direct costs (tuition, room, board and fees) and estimates of indirect costs (e.g., travel and books).
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Is this real progress? Student loans (student debt) have become a racket, like credit card usurious rates, like the housing bubble with millions losing their homes, etc. In fact, just about everything that is “privatized” (turned into a money-making machine for capitalists). Credit card debt, student loans, housing loans, etc. become impossible under a collapsed capitalist economy.
Organized labor must take up the banner of Free Education for All from child care through college and beyond into Adult Education, as at the Labor College.
Right now, in California and nationwide, is the on-going assualt on free and affordable public education. There is supposedly “no money” in Schwartzenneger’s budget so all the critical services needed by the people are
axed.
Of course, there is Obummer’s request for more BILLIONS for another war increase in Afghanistan and Pakistan, there are TRILLIONS of dollars for the
corrupt banks, for incompetent and corrupt auto companies, etc.etc.
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE FROM ORGANIZED LABOR THE THIS MASSIVE DESTRUCTION OF WORKING PEOPLE? Stop talking trivia when we are being overwhelmed with massive crises causing destruction and death internationally and now coming home to the U.S.
This following article from the socialist PEACE AND FREEDOM PARTY,
now California based but possibly going national in the fall”. ALSO THOSE IN CALIFORNIA BE SURE TO VOTE NO! ON ALL PROPOSITIONS MAY 19th!
http://peaceandfreedom.org/home/about-us/resolutions-and-statements/404-free-quality-education-for-all
Free Quality Education For All!
Stop the Cuts
The governor and the legislature have cut almost $15 billion from the state budget, 78% of it from education. They made millions in cuts from already underfunded community colleges.
The community college system must grow, not shrink. It is a gateway for all students to a university education. It provides job skills for people in a changing economy and enrichment for all seeking lifelong learning.
The California Constitution guarantees tuition-free college education, but the State charges ever-increasing “fees.”
Tax the Rich and their Corporations
Business leaders say they need a well-educated work force, but they don’t want to pay taxes to support education. They are using the economic crisis to further attack public services which they have been starving for decades.
We can split property tax rolls so that corporate properties are taxed at their real value instead of the Proposition 13 subsidy rate. We can raise taxes on profits, wealth and high incomes and impose a severance tax on oil pumped from our land. The money is there. We just need to unite and fight for it.
Say No to Prop 1A - No Spending Cap on Our Needs
The May 19 special election seals the deal the legislature made to pass the budget. Proposition 1A will limit state spending in prosperous years so that education and other public services will continue to be on a starvation diet.
The budget deal increases taxes which affect the poorest people the most. It raises the sales tax and reduces the state income tax exemption credit for children. While we pay more taxes, new tax loopholes will give billions of dollars to big corporations.
Stop the spending cap and cut short the new taxes. Vote “NO” on Prop 1A.
United We Fight, Divided We Beg
Students, teachers, public employees, disabled people, retirees and all working-class people face the same crisis. We must organize together for what we need. We can join public actions such as the May 1 demonstrations, when workers all across the state will protest cuts in wages and benefits, the privatization of their jobs, and attacks on immigrant families. We can also work to get rid of the 2/3 vote requirement in the legislature for passing a budget or taxes.
It’s time to reject the Democrats and Republicans, the parties of the rich and the corporations, and build a party run by and for working-class people. In California, you can register in the Peace and Freedom Party, the only party on the ballot which stands for changing our capitalist system of profit and greed into a socialist system based on democracy and cooperation.
I am glad to see we are making progress on educating people about labor. As a teacher I have tried to do my best when I teach Government and U.S. History to cover labor. I have suggested on my own blog Philadelphia Progressive Examiner and Ezinearticles.com that Labor needs to organize a huge Labor Day Rally to show our coin operated Congress that the rich are nolonger all powerful. All of us, myself included could sign union cards to be dumped on the Democrats desks who don’t think now is very convienient to have EFCA.
We are also seeing Health Care whittled away because Big Insurance and Pharma don’t want reform. Trying to fix these things reminds me of raising the Titanic and claiming we don’t need a new ship the old one just has a little water damage. There will be no justice until all of us who want a Union can join one. But everyone but Middle Class America are organized and the rich sure don’t want us to be. Lets remind America that Labor Day was hard won and not just another day to drink beer