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 Hidden Risks of Dodging Student Loan Debt
By Justin PopeExperts warn that students who take extreme steps to avoid debt at all costs may get stuck with something much more financially damaging than moderate student loan debt: They may burn out and fail to...
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Big Expansion for Teach for America
By CHRISTINE ARMARIO, Associated PressIn a distressed neighborhood north of Miami's gleaming downtown, a group of enthusiastic but inexperienced instructors from Teach for America is trying to make progress where more veteran teachers...
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Class of 2010: Jobless with Soaring Student Debt
By Justin PopeThe college class of 2010 took out student loans owed an average of $25,250 upon graduation, a 5 percent increase from the year before. It’s especially hard for college graduates to find a job...
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College Prices Continue to Rise
By Justin PopeAs President Obama prepared to announce new measures Wednesday to help ease the burden of student loan debt, new figures painted a demoralizing picture of college costs for students and parents.
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The Huge Student-Loan Burden Obama Wants to Lift
By Blaire Briody, The Fiscal TimesObama will ease the burden of student loan debt for some 7.4 million recipients, but students with extreme and unmanageable levels of debt continue to have few options to turn to.