With student Stafford loan interest rates on the verge of doubling, President Barack Obama entered the University of Iowa’s Field House today and urged students to appeal to Congress to extend the rate freeze before it jumps to 6.8 percent in July.
State legislators are expected to consider a bill to ease parts of a controversial Iowa law allowing imprisonment of HIV-infected people for up to 25 years if they don’t reveal their condition before having “intimate contact” with another person.
