Monthly Journalism Award
The Washington Monthly Journalism Award FOR FEBRUARY 1993 IS PRESENTED TO: Michael Winerip The New York Times In a three-part series, Winerip goes inside the disastrous federal student loan...
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...And Winerip wisely warns of the danger of ignoring these problems just as Clinton expands direct federal lending to students...
...The history of the children's disability program illustrates what can happen when a law is enacted without much debate or study and then becomes subject to interpretation by regulators, advocates, and the Supreme Court," the reporters write...
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...In 1993, those 26 words were costing the government $3.6 billion a year, and Woodward and Weiser's investigation unearthed some disturbing truths...
...The Washington Monthly Journalism Award FOR FEBRUARY 1993 IS PRESENTED TO: Michael Winerip The New York Times In a three-part series, Winerip goes inside the disastrous federal student loan program to explain how it manages to lose $3 billion a year...
...Nominations for stories published or aired in May will close June 15...
...Where does the money go...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...Fortunately, a solution is at hand: Have the IRS collect the loans [see "Making College Possible," Jonathan Cohn, April 1994], Bob Woodward and Benjamin Weiser The Washington Post In 1972, a federal welfare official hastily inserted a 26-word clause into a mammoth welfare bill authorizing payments to poor children under 18 with disabilities—even troublemaking children with no disability other than routine signs of adolescent rebellion...
...Then there is the Department of Education itself, understaffed and overburdened with the task of overseeing and collecting student loans...
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...First, to fly-by-night trade and vocational schools that attract federal loans and grants, then viciously dash the hopes of the people who depend on the inadequate training they get there...
Vol. 26 • January 1994 • No. 5
