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Obama announces simpler college financial aid process

In a move that could remove a "huge barrier" to higher education, the Obama administration is proposing to simplify the federal financial aid form by reducing the number of questions and making it easier for families to retrieve tax data online to answer others.

The streamlined financial aid process, announced Wednesday, will begin in January 2010, when the number of questions, now at 153,...

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