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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How to Teach Your Kids About Money When Back-to-School Shopping
In addition to picking up notebooks and calculators this year, you can give your kids something even more valuable: a lesson in personal finance. The back-to-school shopping period provides an ideal...
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Here’s How Much the Class of 2016 Owes on Their Student Loans
Students who graduated from college in 2016 with educational loans borrowed slightly less to pay for school than those who finished in 2015, new data shows.
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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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21 Tax Day Deals You Can't Miss
You may still be hurting from writing your tax check to Uncle Sam – or you may be celebrating because you’ve got a nice refund coming your way. In either case, restaurants and retailers across the...
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10 Things to Stress Out About Now That Tax Day Is Over
By Josh HerrApril 15 is here and as people all across the country wait in line at their local post office (or frantically press the submit button on TurboTax), many of us are left wondering how we will fill the...
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4 High-Earning Careers Surprisingly Likely to Lead to Bankruptcy
By Marine ColeAn increasing number of bankruptcy filers are more likely to be upper middle class or even high-net-worth individuals, a trend that’s spiraled since the 2008 financial crisis due to investments gone...
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Obamacare's Cadillac Tax Hits the College Campus
By John S. Rosenberg, The Fiscal TimesHigher education and its comfortable inhabitants on campus have long been hotbeds of support for Obama and Obamacare. Now, along with business and labor, i.e., the other inhabitants of what passes...
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The Best Way to Get Your Student Loan Forgiven
By Eric Rosenbaum, CNBCEveryone knows the alarming news about student loans: It's grown to become the second-largest source of consumer debt in the U.S. behind only home mortgages, surpassing credit card debt since the...