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    Name: Sarah Hacker on Sep 8, 2002
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    Name: J Lee on Sep 8, 2002
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: People without children are not automatically rich. Please extend Pell Grants to those who need financial assistance for higher education, regardless of parental status.
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    Name: Sharon Everett on Sep 8, 2002
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: I was not aware of this ridiculous "requirement" that married low-income folks have a child in order to qualify for a Pell Grant. This is absolutely discrimination and completely inappropriate.
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    Name: Heinrich Moxter on Sep 8, 2002
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    Country: DE
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    Name: Julia Piercey on Sep 8, 2002
    State: IN
    Country: US
    Comments: Absolutely! The current federal financial aid system rewards people who will be a burden on society anyway and waste their education. Those who are responsible and choose not to have kids are penalized.
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    Name: Denise DeGraf on Sep 8, 2002
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Marsha Meury on Sep 8, 2002
    State: MN
    Country: US
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    Name: Melanie Camurati on Sep 8, 2002
    State: NY
    Country: US
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    Name: Sarah Brown on Sep 8, 2002
    State: TX
    Country: US
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    Name: Corine Houry-Kling` on Sep 8, 2002
    State: NY
    Country: US
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    Name: Monica Lightner on Sep 8, 2002
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Allison Hergenrother on Sep 8, 2002
    State: FL
    Country: US
    Comments: Too many women are getting their college degrees via their uteruses. There are many programs for single mothers that will pay for tuition as well as give book vouchers and even a daycare subsidy. It is as if people are rewarded for making bad choices and overburdening the welfare system by these women letting the biological father off the hook for child support.
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    Name: Yui Daoren on Sep 8, 2002
    State: NM
    Country: US
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    Name: Kris Rose on Sep 8, 2002
    State: AZ
    Country: US
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    Name: Rose Delckum on Sep 8, 2002
    State: PA
    Country: US
    Comments: I am currently a full time graduate student. In order to pay for my education, my husband and I had to save for several years and take out a second mortgage on our home. It's frustrating to meet students who get free educations (and often don't care or value them) simply because they have children. Why punish those who work hard and reward those who don't
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    Name: Paul Tauger on Sep 8, 2002
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Susan Driver on Sep 8, 2002
    State: NC
    Country: US
    Comments: This is wrong, wrong, wrong! This government taxes the blood out of people with no kids, but refuses to help them get an education Sounds like discrimination to me.
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    Name: Avril Korman on Sep 8, 2002
    State: NY
    Country: US
    Comments: By giving Pell money only to married people if they have children, you encourage financial and social irresponsibility.
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    Name: Marcy Hix on Sep 8, 2002
    State: VA
    Country: US
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    Name: Danielle Clynes on Sep 8, 2002
    State: FL
    Country: US
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    Name: Rebecca Flaugh on Sep 8, 2002
    State: VA
    Country: US
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    Name: Cris Devine on Sep 8, 2002
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: I had a Pell Grant back in '86 when they suddenly disappeared. Being low income, 17 and all alone I finally had to drop out of college and take a few full-time jobs, both of which I lost to single mothers who needed my shifts. Because of all this I've been living and supporting myself, below the poverty line and constantly hungry for years. Now I find out these grants still exist, and reward the very system and type of people who have been starving me all these years. This is despicable, irreprehensible and certainly not reflective of any sort of democratic system at all.
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    Name: Laura Fenn on Sep 8, 2002
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    Name: Kari Levstik on Sep 8, 2002
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    Comments: I was told when I enrolled for college that I needed to go out and lower my standards by getting pregnant out of wedlock in order to qualify for a Pell Grant. This is discriminitory. Stop rewarding the non- contributing teen mothers for their sexual irresponsibility. They do not deserve the glorification they are getting.
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    Name: Stacey Carmody on Sep 8, 2002
    State: PA
    Country: US
    Comments: The government has to get over the idea that being childfree=having a lot of money. Because this simply is NOT THE CASE, especially in an economy like this. I am childfree, single, unmarried, college degreed, and I work full time. I am still strapped financially, and I'd still be- even if I got married. I have a mortgage, utilities and a disabled parent to support. I am FAR from rich. I couldnt afford college if I wanted to go back. When I had only a part time job, I had no health insurance! Why Because my employer would not give it to part timers, and the gov't would not give me Medicaid because I "made too much money!" What a joke! However, if I knocked up and ruined my life by having a baby, they'd give it all to me! What a disgrace!I am sick of how our country treats the childfree!
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    Name: Charles Karolewski on Sep 8, 2002
    State: NJ
    Country: US
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    Name: Maya Kraus on Sep 8, 2002
    State: FL
    Country: US
    Comments: Children should not even be a consideration when it comes to adults trying to get an education.
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    Name: Pauline Philpott-smythe on Sep 8, 2002
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    Name: Jocelyn Slaughter on Sep 8, 2002
    State: WA
    Country: US
    Comments: Unbelievable and totally horrendous blantant discrimination based on breeding status.
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    Name: Christy Miller on Sep 8, 2002
    State: VA
    Country: US
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    Name: Andria Sturtevant on Sep 8, 2002
    State: OR
    Country: US
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    Name: Tanya Hadaway on Sep 8, 2002
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    Name: Laura Espinoza on Sep 8, 2002
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: The same should apply to singles without children. Because of this lousy economy, I'm underemployed, barely able to make rent and utilities, but my co-worker who was pregnant at 16, now 22 with 3 kids, gets over $9,000. Because she couldn't keep her legs closed. Statisically, I'll finish school, and she wont', thereby wasting the money that is handed to her on a silver platter. I NEED HELP TOO! At least with me, it's a better investment.
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    Name: Christine Lukas on Sep 8, 2002
    State: CO
    Country: US
    Comments: This is insane. Rewarding people for being financially irresponsible is WRONG. There is no excuse for subsidizing the educations of people who irresponsibly reproduced while those who have the sense to wait are shut out.
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    Name: Katherine Leonard on Sep 8, 2002
    State: NC
    Country: US
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    Name: Karen Kimmerly on Sep 8, 2002
    State: OH
    Country: US
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    Name: Debra Wallace on Sep 8, 2002
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    Name: Sherrie Wilson on Sep 8, 2002
    State: CO
    Country: US
    Comments: I had to take out student loans to go to college as I, too, am CF by choice, and there aren't any assistance programs in place for those intelligent enough to not have kids. This needs to change. I wholeheartedly support this petition.
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    Name: Diana Gregory on Sep 8, 2002
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Angela Rigor on Sep 8, 2002
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Lori J on Sep 8, 2002
    State: TN
    Country: US
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    Name: Wendy Shipps Bush on Sep 8, 2002
    State: MO
    Country: US
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    Name: Deborah Shaffer on Sep 8, 2002
    State: CA
    Country: US
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    Name: Catherine Megill on Sep 8, 2002
    State:
    Country: CA
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    Name: David Hayes on Sep 8, 2002
    State: MA
    Country: US
    Comments: Fuck all breeder-centric policies.
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    Name: Valerie Kelley on Sep 8, 2002
    State: MO
    Country: US
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    Name: Kris Dotto on Sep 8, 2002
    State: CA
    Country: US
    Comments: I believe that Pell Grants should be awarded on the basis of need and merit, with no preference given for reproductive status.
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    Name: E. L. Skrapits on Sep 8, 2002
    State: PA
    Country: US
    Comments: The Pell Grant requirements are discriminatory and reward/promote irresponsible reproduction.
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    Name: Cathlin Barry on Sep 8, 2002
    State: NV
    Country: US
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    Name: Jacqueline Hass on Sep 8, 2002
    State: WI
    Country: US
    Comments: People who choose to get an education, work in a career, & become financially stable before having children should not be discriminated against in regard to Pell Grants.
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