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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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.
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9 Wacky Student Business Plans That Could Succeed
By David Koeppel, The Fiscal TimesFrom an insect-eating company to massaging socks, business school professors hear some outrageous startup ideas from students. But sometimes out of inspired madness comes the next Steve Jobs or Mark...
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Take Your Recession Job and Shove It
By Leah Konen, The Fiscal TimesMore recent college grads are applying to national service and volunteering programs than ever before. Why toil away in a brutal job search when you could be volunteering in Africa?
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Has America Lost the Future? Ask a College Grad
By Kathy Deveney and Karlee Weinmann, The Fiscal TimesNew census data shows it’s worse out there in the brutal job market for recent grads than expected. They’re facing unemployment, underemployment and depressed wages for years to come—as well as tough...