Graduate students nationwide protest House tax bill, saying it could cost them thousands
LOS ANGELES - Rashad Ahmed left his high-paying job on Wall Street for the University of Southern California, where he's using economic research to help tackle social problems such as homelessness. At UCLA, Emily Yen is studying the environmental justice movement in Long Beach and Los Angeles. And at the California Institute of Technology, Celeste Labedz is using seismology to understand glaciers.
But the doctoral students say their work and the important research of graduate students nationwide are in jeopardy if changes in House Republicans' tax bill become
