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 New Test for Grads That Could Get Them a Job
More than 200 colleges, including some in the Texas and California state systems, have signed on to offer their students the new voluntary Collegiate Learning Assessment Plus (CLA+) test, which is...
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Unpaid Intern Backlash Heats Up
By Nona Willis Aronowitz, CNBCA growing number of disgruntled workers have begun to challenge the fairness--and legality--of the unpaid internship, a fact of life for young Americans hoping to pad their resumes and gain...
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MOOCs Emerge as Option for Mid-Career Education
By Issie Lapowski, Inc.comOnline education companies like Udacity and Coursera aim to give jobseekers a shot at advancing their careers.
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In Higher Education, a Low Tolerance for MOOCs
By Rachelle DeJong, Minding the CampusTepid. Even disapproving. That's the state of many professors' attitudes towards MOOCs, according to Inside Higher Ed's 2013 Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology, released this week.
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Baby Boomers Still Struggling with Student Loans
By Eamon Javers, CNBCParents are struggling to pay off student loans even as their children take on new debts to pay for their own schooling.