And last week, the House approved legislation to help poor college students.

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College students, minorities, and the poor, all of whom tend to vote Democratic, will likely be most disadvantaged.

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Given a choice of providing nursing home care for poor senior citizens, keeping criminals off the street, or subsidizing the college education of relatively affluent middle class students, politicians are not about to favor the universities.

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