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Would-be Grad Students Have Financing Options

By Leah Carlson Shepherd
Special to Roll Call
Sept. 20, 2006, 2:26 p.m.

One of the first hurdles people encounter when they want to earn a graduate degree is the daunting price. Many students come to find they need to combine several strategies, including graduate assistantships, employer assistance and loans to foot the bill.

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May 22, 2012

Rumi Pazos, 6, and his mother, Christi Funk, from Orange County, Ca., attend a news conference Tuesday in front of the Capitol on the Safe Chemical Act, which would update the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. To support the bill, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families rallied moms, nurses and cancer survivors to participate in a “stroller brigade” throughout the Capitol complex.

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