For some students, a prepaid card offered through a college may be the fastest way to receive student-loan funds, says Rich Williams, higher education advocate with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.

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"It's not the perfect solution, but it's a step in the right direction, and it buys us time to find a longer-term solution, " says Rich Williams, higher-education advocate at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit based in Washington.

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Frank Rich has used his column in the New York Times to advocate for same-sex marriage.

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Those who really believed it would advocate taxing the poor more to give to the rich: those who use the entire construct simply to support their pre-extant desire to tax the rich (or reduce inequality, increase social justice, fill in your favourite phrase here) would not.

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