Religion and Politics

Liberty University, a Hub of Conservative Politics, Owes Rapid Growth to Federal Student Loans

In The Washington Post, Tobin Grant writes that Virginia’s Liberty University, a conservative Christian university that attracts GOP political candidates currying favor, has—in an ironic twist—grown exponentially thanks to the Obama administration and congressional Democrats who pushed through expanded federal student aid. Grant writes, “Federal aid to Liberty’s students has grown so high that it now exceeds the revenue collected by the university.”

Read at The Washington Post

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