White House Screws Up Jobs Plan Message

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Hours after top adviser David Axelrod asserted that President Barack Obama wants his jobs bill to pass Congress without amendment, White House economic adviser Gene Sperling said the opposite — that Obama would not veto a plan that only contained parts of his proposal.

On Good Morning America Tuesday, Axelrod said "we’re not in a negotiation to break up the package, and it’s not an à la carte menu. It is a strategy to get this country moving."

But Sperling told reporters today that if Obama is “presented with parts of his plan, his instinct would be not to reject things he favored but to come back and keep fighting and fighting to get the entire program,"according to POLITICO.

House Republicans have said they do not approve of Obama's plan in its current form, and intend to make significant modifications to the bill. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor categorically ruled out any tax increases to pay for the bill on Thursday, eliminating any chance the bill can pass in its current form.

The confusion is the latest miscue for Obama since the White House struggled with Republicans over the date of his speech to Congress to outline the plan. 

Obama will travel to Ohio today to try to build public support for his bill.

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Believe It Or Not, White Students Receive A Disproportionate 76% Of All College Scholarships

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White students receive 76% of all university funding -- including need-based grants and merit scholarships -- despite representing only 62% of those attending college, reports GOOD Magazine.

Citing the research of Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Fastweb.com and FinAid.com, Liz Dwyer writes that whites can thank the biases of college-specific scholarship requirements for this gap. Kantrowitz looked into the topic in response to a new scholarship from the Texas nonprofit Former Majority for Equality available only to white males.

Kantrowitz writes:

While there are very few private scholarships that are explicitly targeted at Caucasian students as a category, Caucasian students receive a disproportionately greater share of private scholarships and merit- based grants. Caucasian students receive more than three times as much in merit-based grant and private scholarship funding as minority students. These 'Whites Only' scholarships are usually created by students who are frustrated at their own inability to find and win scholarships.

This story follows closely on another report from GOOD's Cord Jefferson that poked holes in Ivy League schools' claims to diversity. Jefferson found that of the storied colleges' black student populations, 41% were first- or second-generation immigrants--a group that makes up less than one percent of the U.S. population.

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