higher eduation

It's been a shady week here at FM. Content has been light as I've been sick most of the week, and struggling through a major work crunch at both my day job and with the book. To top it all off, the site was down for an hour this morning. Sorry about that.

Next week I hope things will be back to normal, and I expect that I will also finally roll out that second big announcement I alluded to a couple weeks ago. In the meantime, here are a few stories you should check out:

• In a piece at Huffington Post, Jason Carter, grandson of the former President Jimmy Carter, lays out a case for a new, service-oriented politics, and promotes an organization we've profiled here at FM before: Democrats Work.
• The new student aid bill we blogged about earlier this summer emerged from conference committee yesterday. The bill, which is slated to reduce lender subsidies and substantially increase need-based student aid, will now go back to the House and Senate for approval. Details on the bill, how it came to pass, and the process moving forward can be found here. The Project on Student Debt has a fact sheet.
• The League has a new website. When things quite down, maybe I'll give it a review.