Amend to include all Veternan's not just after 9/11/01. It is unfair, unacceptable. The requirement is Veteran we should have the same beneftis. This also had option in-state tuition offered to students. FL,OH & KY have adopted this policy. We were denied due to discharged in 1989, denied to apply. The door has opened if you are a student after 9/11/01 they tell yout to come in an apply, before that the door is shut no options, no benefits? Tell me this is fair? We need to help our children at a time where Fannie Mae Home Modifications are 2-4% and student loans 7.9%? We need to look at our future our children need our help today!!

Taxing bottle water in the state of Nevada, will help pay our teacher's salaries, and not lay them off. Our children's education is the best investment we can give them, and by having overcrowded classrooms, lack of teaching tools to help provide a good education, we will see a larger number in the dropout rate, because of lack of funding. It's important to strive to keep all children in school and even more so to have a higher percentage of children graduating high school.

We need to change the airport signs from fearbased orange to blue for PEACE as the default. We are now at peace...we need to see that assurance when we travel. it is really bad psychology to stay in fearbased paradigms especially when they are not representing true status.

Government backed college loans of 8%? That's right. The recent congressional action to lower interest rates only applied to undergraduate Stafford Loans. Middle class graduate students are leaving college as virtual indentured servants facing the prospects of paying for college over most of their adult lives. These are government loans, and without them the middle class cannot fulfill their dreams to enter the workplace as physical therapists, lawyers, and doctors.

Too many people over the age of 50 have school loans in which they cannot pay back and President O'Bama failed to include in the last round of student loan forgiveness. Too many of us, such as myself, have student loans that keep us from dealing with pressing health issues and affording basics. We tried to pay the loans back but somehow we got notified that we are "default" and if the loans keep up with their demands, I and others will not be able to ever retire because they will garnish our Social Security checks as well. I and others already live in poverty, living paycheck to paycheck.

student loan forgivness

We have borrowed money against our fellow citizens to pay for education, and now we wish to honor our promises to repay our debts. College educations increase graduates' lifetime incomes significantly. We have benefitted from our loans we want to repay them as promised. Our nation is already in debt and does not need to offer handouts to the well educated, nor should it encourage people to expect forgiveness for uncomfortable obligations.

I have been receiving emails from a person,who does not think an individual should live up to his/her obligations and pay back their student loans. It is a legal transaction that has given them an education and given them an opportunity for a rewarding career. They are part of the population that owes the government over a trillion dollars. Why should this be forgiven while others have paid their student loan debt?

Bring talk radio and political commentary personality Thom Hartmann back on the air!

I am a non traditional graduate student at Mississippi Valley State University and I think that tuition cost is a very serious issue in the state of Mississippi. I work a full time job and I am barely able to afford things such as supplies, books, and gas to travel to and from school because of the high cost of tuition. By signing this petition it will help people that are interested in futhering their education be able to afford to go back to school or remain in school.

I am a full time student and I have three girls that are also In college. Financial aid will only pay a certain amount Each school term, the rest is loans or out of pocket, money. We need the cost of tuition to be lowered.

This petition is to let our government officials know that we as students of HBCUs view the increase in tuition as a injustice. Education is priceless but why do our government officials feel the need to place a price tag on it. Please support this petition and let your voice be heard.