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President Joe Biden has vetoed a bill that would have blocked an administration plan to provide nationwide student debt relief.The program, which was one of candidate Biden s central campaign promises, tasked the Department of Education with running a program to forgive up to $10,000 in student loan debt per individual for most applicants, and up
stanley website to $20,000 for certain Pell Grant recipients. Most of the funds were expected to go to households earning less than $75,000 annually, and none of the funds would have been available for those in the top 5% of U.S. income distribution.The Biden Administration says 26 million borrowers signed up for relief.The administration says the Department of Education has taken steps like this in cases of national emergency before, and objected to Congress stopping its progress.SEE MORE: Education secretary a
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. 鈥?Kansas saw a 4.1% increase in the number of abortions performed in the state in 2021 compared with 2020, with more Missouri residents but fewer Oklahoma and Texas residents coming into the state to terminate their pregnancies.A preliminary report Tuesday from the Kansas Departm
stanley mug ent of Health and Environment showed that 7,849 abortions were performed in the state last year. That s 303 more than
vaso stanley the 7,546 performed in Kansas in 2020.The state saw an increase of more than 9% in the number of abortions performed in 2020 over 2019, du
stanley tumbler e to an influx of patients from Oklahoma and Texas, where Republican governors shut down providers early in the coronavirus pandemic, while Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, kept them, open in her state.But the number of abortions performed in Kansas for women from Oklahoma and Texas dropped to a total of 370 in 2021 from 566 in 2020, a drop of nearly 35%.Meanwhile, the number of abortions for women from Missouri was 3,458 last year, up 8% or 257 from 2020.And 8% more Kansas residents had abortions in the state in 2021 than in 2020. The increase was 292, making the total 3,937. Copyright 2022 Scripps Media, Inc. All right
