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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Smith College Protestors Force IMF Head to Withdraw As Commencement Keynote
By Reilly Dowd, The Fiscal TimesIt seemed the perfect choice: one of the most powerful women in the world chosen as commencement speaker for a college founded in 1871 with the goal of proving women were the equal of men. But...
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Where You Go to College Doesn’t Really Matter
By Liz Weston, ReutersThe first large-scale study of college graduates' success in life using measures other than salary reached some potentially revolutionary conclusions. It also changed how at least one of the...
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The Real Key to Economic Success - Your Neighborhood
By Staff, MIT NewsHow much does your neighborhood determine your life chances? Sociologist and urban planner Xavier de Souza Briggs recently completed a 20-year social experiment on ghetto poverty that asked: If...
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You, Too, Can Get Paid by An Unpaid Internship
By Kara Brandeisky, ProPublicaAt ProPublica, we've heard from a lot of unpaid interns. You've told us about walking your boss's dog , fact-checking for magazines and even doing the same work as federal prosecutors — all for...
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Warren Targets Student Loans As Key Campaign Issue
By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal TimesDemocrats are enlisting their rising star, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), to drum up attention for one of their key campaign platforms ahead of the midterm elections. The liberal firebrand from...