Marcia L. Fudge Quotes
We need to address hunger, job training, justice. I can't do it alone. We need to elect people who understand the urgency.
Fudge, Marcia L. Campaign Rally Speech. Fudge for Congress Campaign, 2014.
The founder was Charles E. Coughlin, 1891-1979, a demagogic Catholic Priest who drafted the principles and invited others to join him. Hundreds of thousands did in this organization which began in idealism, and ended in scandal and hate mongering, so much so that Father Coughlin was ordered off the radio and out of politics by the Catholic Church. The National Union in 1936 had morphed into the Union Party which ran Presidential candidates in the 1936 election.
During the depression the senator warned his fellow Republicans of relying too much on the strategy of attacking the "unconstitutionality" of many of the New Deal programs while ignoring the economic and political realities of the time:
Mitchell was the first African American to be elected to the United States Congress as a Democrat. The few other Blacks were Republicans from the Reconstruction period after the Civil War. The President was FDR and Mitchell was elected in the midst of the Great Depression.
profit making schools of higher education The latter years of the 20th century saw a large increase in the number of proprietary, profit making colleges and other institutions of higher education. These were able to utilize the Federal student loan programs. However, many were fraudulent rip-offs. Most were unaccredited. The average proprietary school obtained more federal student loan money per student than non-profit schools {639817}, and did not train their students as well. A smaller percentage of their students get their degrees and find jobs. When they do obtain employment they make less money. Congressional pressure, induced by heavy lobbying, stopped Department of Education efforts to make schools with poor graduation or employment rates ineligible for use of Student Loan Programs.
Marcia Louise Fudge is an American attorney and politician serving as the 18th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 11th congressional district from 2008 to 2021.
