Warren, Sanders Call For Expanding Food Aid To College Students
By Elissa Nadworny
May 11, 2021
Democrats in the House and Senate are introducing legislation Tuesday that would make pandemic-related food benefits for college students permanent. The push is being led by Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent.
In the December relief package, Congress increased the number of low-income college students eligible for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for the duration of the pandemic. That included students who are eligible for work study, have an expected family contribution of zero dollars, or qualify for a maximum Pell Grant on their federal financial aid form. According to The Century Foundation, this expansion affects about 3 million college students.
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In a time of uncertain federal budgets and an increasingly crowded marketplace, contractors of all sizes are on the lookout for ways to enhance their chances of winning federal business opportunities. Step one in this process is, of course, the identification of the government’s needs which are typically codified in requests for proposals or quotations. Step two (
i.e., the “pursuit” phase) involves the preparation of an offer designed to fulfill the government’s requirements. As most government contractors know all too well, this is an often laborious and expensive process that requires painstaking attention to detail. But what happens when there is, in fact, a real devil lurking in those details? What if the RFP or RFQ simply doesn’t make sense? What if the terms are in conflict with one another? What if the government includes requirements that run afoul of a law or regulation? Enter the pre-award protest exo
International relations minor sets graduates on global paths
May 10, 2021
Blair Lapres ’09 is an economist at the World Bank, working on private sector development with governments across the globe, from west Africa to parts of central Asia.
Tony Zhou ’19 worked in Zambia through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Now he’s based in Khartoum, Sudan, with the Darfur Women Action Group, a women-led NGO for survivors of the Darfur genocide.
Ashni Verma ’21, an industrial and labor relations major, is heading to a job as an analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office after graduation. These are just three of more than 400 undergraduates who have earned an international relations minor at Cornell.
Americans not getting mental health care needed amid pandemic, reports suggest
By Megan Ziegler article
BROOKLYN, NY - JANUARY 13: A teenage boy sleeps through most of the late morning on January 13, 2018 in his home in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/ Corbis via Getty Images)
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has made access to mental health services more necessary than ever. Though several new reports suggest Americans aren’t getting the mental health care they need, despite data showing mental health concerns have increased during the pandemic.
For example, recent data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicated that more than 41% of adults were experiencing symptoms of an anxiety or depressive disorder in February 2021 a significant increase from the year prior.
California Native Americans won health care settlement. Federal government hasn t delivered
Yesenia Amaro
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Fresno, Calif. The court rulings brought hope. Finally, California s Native American population the nation s largest would receive its rightful share of federal health care funding.
Triumphant, leaders in the California Native community journeyed to Washington to negotiate the process of opening the funding pipeline.
That was more than four decades ago.
Today, despite a 1979 federal court-ordered settlement that would have pumped millions of dollars into California for Native American health care, the state s share remains stunningly underfunded by the Indian Health Service, Native leaders say. Their claim has been corroborated by government records and, most recently, a 2019 letter to IHS co-signed by then-Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, urging the agency to repair this longstanding inequity.