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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College Grads: Don't Follow Your Dreams — Do This Instead
By Rene Shimada Siegel, Inc.comWe all need to reinvent ourselves regularly. Here's how I suggest new grads — or anyone — go about it.
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The Brilliant Plan That Could Save Colleges Millions
By Benjamin Ginsberg, Minding-the-CampusAs colleges use MOOCs to reduce faculty costs, one professor thinks the concept might work for administrators as well. The solution: massive open online administrations, in which one experienced...
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Why Our Teachers Can't Teach
By Stephanie Simon, ReutersThe U.S. teacher training system is badly broken, turning out rookie educators who have little hands-on experience running classrooms and are quickly overwhelmed by the job, according to a report...
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10 Ways Parents Can Hurt Their Child’s Job Chances
By Julie Halpert, The Fiscal TimesMore parents are getting involved in their child's job search, and while they might mean well, they’re not always in the best position to help. Here are some tips for parents trying to help their...
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The Days of Exploiting Unpaid Interns Are Over
By Blaire Briody, The Fiscal TimesTwo unpaid interns – Alex Footman and Eric Glatt – who worked on the movie Black Swan won a massive lawsuit against their former “employer” Fox Searchlight on Tuesday that could do away with the...