Posts Tagged: federal


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Jul 09

Student Loan Relief for Some

Today’s  Philadelphia Inquirer has a story which highlights the newest changes regarding student loan repayment:

A federal law went into effect this month that allows people to adjust student-loan payments based on their income. The program limits monthly payments to 15 percent of the difference between the debtor’s income and 150 percent of the federal poverty guideline.

After 25 years of qualifying payments, any remaining debt could be forgiven.


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May 09

Daily Links for May 22nd through May 23rd

  • Rankings – Best Places to Work – The Best Places to Work rankings — the most comprehensive and authoritative rating of employee satisfaction and commitment in the federal government — are produced by the Partnership for Public Service and American University's Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation (ISPPI).
  • 13 Characteristics of Outstanding Blog Design | Webdesigner Depot – There are plenty of sources available for designers who are seeking inspiration from high quality blog design, but it’s also important to understand specifically what will influence and determine the success of a blog theme design. In this article we’ll examine 13 characteristics that separate great blog themes from the rest.

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Apr 09

Daily Links for April 2nd

  • Pew Research Center: Public Knows Basic Facts About Financial Crisis – The latest Pew Research Center News IQ survey finds the American public reasonably well-informed about a number of basic facts pertaining to the current economic situation.
  • Top 10 remodeling projects for resale (Page 1 of 5) – Here's the lowdown on the top 10 home improvement projects by resale value from this 19th annual report, which is based on e-mail surveys returned from 2,188 members of the National Association of Realtors. In calculating costs, the report authors considered complete cost-to-construct figures (including labor, material, subtrade contractors and gross profit).

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Apr 09

Daily Links for April 2nd


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Jan 09

Daily Links for January 13th

  • BUSH BASH // JANUARY 19th, 2009 – Celebrate the end of the Bush era by throwing him the largest going away party ever. Join a party or plan your own for the night of January 19th—Bush's last official day in office. Then post your party photos on Flickr, and we’ll stream them on this site the next day. Let's bash together as bushbash09.com lives on as the last moment of the finally-over Bush era.
  • Obamicon.Me – Home – Make your own "Obamicon" — your image in a style inspired by Shepard Fairey's iconic poster. Regardless of your candidate of choice in the 2008 election, here's your chance to sound-off.

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Dec 08

Daily Links for December 20th

  • GOOD » A Glimpse at the Future of Journalism» – It’s no secret that the industry’s future is bleak, and death is always a worthy story. But you seldom read about ideas for completely overhauling the industry. I don’t know why—music and cars get that treatment all the time. Perhaps it’s too much to ask journalists to prescribe their own cure—like asking a surgeon to perform a heart transplant on herself. Yet the ideas do exist.

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Dec 08

Daily Links for December 11th

  • Retailer Survival Tips – Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog – The holidays are going to stink. But I'm hopeful that the crisis will be cathartic for retailers, and that the smart ones will embark in 2009 on the true journeys of reinvention that, up to now, they've barely even recognized, let alone begun.
  • Philadelphia Will Do » Give This The Pulitzer – Does it get any better than these courtroom sketches of Rod Blagojevich? Why yes, yes it does, in the form of a Chicago Sun-Times story headlined, “Is Blago’s hair a sign of sickness?
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