Federal law forbids universities to pay recruiters based on how many American students they enroll, a ban meant to block aggressive recruiters from signing up unqualified students for college, including welfare recipients, in order to pocket the commissions — knowing the students would be likely to default on federal student loans.
Welfare and Families AWAITING SIGNATURE Would allow student internships and work-study jobs held by college students on welfare to count toward work requirements under the welfare law.
Hunter Students Celebrate Legislative Success Students in the Hunter College Welfare Rights Initiative celebrated last week after Gov. GEORGE E. PATAKI signed legislation allowing work-study programs and internships to count as work activity for college students on welfare.
Gov. George E. Pataki has signed legislation that will allow workfare exemptions for college students on welfare if they are involved in internships or work-study programs.
Anthony Coles, a senior adviser to Mr. Giuliani, said the city did not oppose allowing college students on welfare to count internships and similar jobs toward fulfilling workfare obligations, as long as those jobs provided "real work experience".
He went on, telling that he doesn't like Sanders' idea of free college, and thinks welfare abuse is a big problem in the US.
These sentiments have been stoked by politicians and the media, and are reflected in a GOP congressman calling Pell grants -- which help low-income students pay for college -- "the welfare of the twenty-first century," and a Fox News pundit arguing, "I think the recession was good for kids".
Another reason, he said, is that the state used its extensive network of community colleges to train welfare recipients.
Besides teaching in elementary, secondary, and teacher-training schools, the brothers administer and staff colleges; agricultural schools; welfare or corrective schools; technical, trade, and commercial schools; and houses of retreat.
Lawmakers have cut some $30 billion over two fiscal years, ending in 2010, from schools, colleges, health care, welfare, corrections and more, leaving residents without services they are used to receiving.
