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• The Latest: California adopts school LGBT history lessons
• How Educators Are Fighting College Food Insecurity
• E-cigarettes could cut smoking-related deaths by 21 percent: study
• New U.S. bill to tax financial trading brings campaign issue to the fore
• How Arbitration Helps, Hurts Defrauded Student Loan Borrowers

The Latest: California adopts school LGBT history lessons Posted: 14 Jul 2016 03:06 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on California's consideration of curriculum guidelines that address LGBT history in public schools (all times local):

How Educators Are Fighting College Food Insecurity Posted: 14 Jul 2016 02:34 PM PDT A starving college student's diet may spark images of surviving on Cup Noodles, but for nearly half of the 240,000 students at the University of California's 10 campuses, imagination is reality. A report released Monday on food insecurity concluded that four in 10 students in the statewide system have no consistent access to "high quality and nutritious" foods. Of the nearly 9,000 UC students surveyed, lower-income students were more likely to be food insecure than their higher-income peers, and nearly one in five students experienced "very low food security," including skipping meals due to limited resources.

E-cigarettes could cut smoking-related deaths by 21 percent: study Posted: 14 Jul 2016 02:12 PM PDT E-cigarettes could lead to a 21 percent drop in deaths from smoking-related diseases in those born after 1997, according to a study published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research. The study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Cancer Institute and the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network, found that under most plausible scenarios e-cigarettes and other vapor products have a generally positive public health impact. Earlier this year a University of California study of high school students found that those who used e-cigarettes were more than twice as likely to also smoke traditional cigarettes.

New U.S. bill to tax financial trading brings campaign issue to the fore Posted: 14 Jul 2016 11:19 AM PDT U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio on Wednesday unveiled legislation to tax financial trades that will likely wither in Congress but could stoke partisan fires in the presidential election. The Oregon Democrat's bill would levy a 0.03 percent tax on most financial trades, and is intended to discourage "risky trading behaviors." DeFazio expects that will collect more than $417 billion in revenue in the next decade, which he said could be used to fund free higher education or infrastructure repairs. When the Democratic Party gathers in Philadelphia for its national convention at the end of the month, it will adopt a platform that calls for taxing trades.

How Arbitration Helps, Hurts Defrauded Student Loan Borrowers Posted: 14 Jul 2016 04:30 AM PDT A few weeks ago, the Student Loan Ranger summarized the Department of Education's recently proposed draft rules that would make it easier for defrauded student loan borrowers to have a portion or all of their federal student loans discharged. Within that same draft rule, the Department of Education also proposed some additional changes that are intended to help protect students and the federal taxpayer by increasing transparency, installing some financial protections and ensuring that consumers have multiple avenues for potential relief if something should go wrong. Arbitration is a process where claimants have agreed to have a third party rule on their dispute.

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