reconciliation law added another 36 billion to Pell over the next 10 years Both this Committee and the Labor Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee have made hard choices to secure these increases for...future For that investment to pay off we must ensure that students are being well educated and that schools are using Federal...

of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions HELP Committee Senator Tom Harkin D IA Later today the Committee will conduct its first oversight hearing on the matter For profit schools are an important...investing billions of dollars in for profit colleges yet student debt and default rates at these schools are disproportionally higher than at...

WASHINGTON D C U S Senator Mike Enzi R Wyo Ranking Member of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions HELP Committee today urged Congress and the Administration to use a scalpel rather than a machete...profit sector Some for profit schools have attempted to game the system in order to gain access to more federal aid dollars Enzi said in a...

WASHINGTON D C Senator Tom Harkin D IA Chairman of the Health Education Labor and Pensions HELP Committee today announced that he plans to hold a series of hearings to examine federal education spending...at for profit institutions are borrowing more and more frequently than their peers at non profit schools and according to the Department of...

children will save us countless billions in future spending on remedial education criminal justice health and welfare programs Children who participate in comprehensive high quality early education programs...and school districts ensure that more young children are prepared to succeed in school We must find more effective ways of supporting them as...

WASHINGTON D C Senator Tom Harkin D IA was honored today by the Harvard School of Public Health for his leadership in developing policies that support and promote good nutrition healthier lifestyles and...lecture sponsored by the School s Nutrition Round Table entitled From Menu Labeling to School Nutrition How Government Programs Encourage...

hearing will explore how physical activity good health and sound nutrition can enhance students ability to succeed in school and in life It alarms me that many health experts now predict that today s generation...are confronted by a twin epidemic of obesity and diabetes And many children are now experiencing health problems that used to affect...

of Exercise Science Associate Vice President for Health Sciences and Director of Children s Physical Activity Research Group Arnold School of Public Health University of South Carolina Columbia SC Download...Department of Health Services UCLA School of Public Health and Co Director UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity Los Angeles CA...

WASHINGTON D C Senator Tom Harkin D IA Chairman of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee praised the action plan released by the Task Force on Childhood Obesity this morning On February...Obama for taking up this fight and the task force for laying out a clear plan to solve this public health crisis I especially appreciate their...

Tom Harkin D IA Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions HELP today announced the selection of his team leaders for health education and labor and the development of a new investigation...around the issues that touch the daily lives of all Americans ensuring access to affordable quality health care and a continued...