Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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The Most Expensive College Town in America
Living off-campus has long been seen as a way to save money on college expenses, but it’s getting a lot harder to find a deal. Here’s the most expensive college town for off-campus rents.
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Do Public Universities Really Favor the Upper Middle Class?
A college education has always been described as an investment in the future – for students, and more broadly, for American society. Parents and students alike have already begun questioning the...
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The Hardest College to Get Into in the US
By Janna HerronThe most difficult college to get into in the country, the California Institute of Technology, accepts less than one student for every 11 applicants. Caltech doesn’t actually have the lowest...
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The 10 College Majors Employers Want Most This Year
By Janna HerronThe proportion of employers planning to hire recent college graduates hit a decade-high this year. Here are the 10 majors most in demand.
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The Best Colleges for Older Students
By 2020, nearly one in five students in higher educations will be over the age of 35.
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What College Students Worry About Most
The biggest driver of stress around college admissions is no longer about whether students will get into their top school.
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College Endowments Take a Big Hit
College endowments had a tough year in 2016, losing money even as the overall stock market racked up double-digit gains.
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The Big Payoff for Cinderella Schools in the March Madness Tournament
Lesser known schools can see a big jump in applications and merchandise sales after an appearance in the NCAA basketball tournament.
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The Most Expensive College in America
College tuition goes nowhere but up. Here’s the most expensive college of them all.
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Ranking the Schools that Turn Poor Kids into Wealthy Ones
By Rob GarverSchools that admit a lot of students from low-income families and help a significant percentage of them find their way into to the top tier of earners aren’t leafy private schools, but mostly urban...
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The Surprising Reason College Tuition Is Crazy Expensive
By Suelain MoyAre federal student loans driving up the cost of college tuition? A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York indicates that’s exactly what’s happening, finding the effect of aid expansion on...
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12 Good and Bad Parts of Online Education
By Mark ThomaIs online education the solution to widening inequality, rapidly rising costs, and lack of access to high quality courses? Will it lead to the demise of traditional “brick and mortar” institutions? I...
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Why Student Loans Should Be Treated Like Every Other Debt
By Jeff Spross, TheWeek.comThis week, the Obama administration made a bold move in the ongoing saga over the country's $1.2 trillion student debt crisis. Back in April, Corinthian Colleges Inc., one of the biggest names in the...
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Top 10 Colleges That Are Worth the Money
With students and parents shelling out tens of thousand (or more) for college these days, more and more people are questioning whether such an enormous investment is actually a wise financial move...
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These 10 Colleges Are the Biggest Wastes of Money
The value of a college degree has increasingly become a point of concern for students and parents worried that the ever-increasing cost of higher education doesn’t pay off. Studies have found that...