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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The Teacher Who Is Out-Buffetting Buffett
By Tracie Cone, Associated PressAt a time of severe budget cutbacks, Fresno County School Superintendent Larry Powell will give back $800,000 in pay that would have been his for the next three years and instead will take less than...
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Accepted! Paying to Get in to a Top Business School
By Greg SpielbergThe new detente between business schools and admissions consultants is an acknowledgement that any school wanting access to the most desirable applicants had better be extremely comfortable with...
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9 Ways You’re Getting Less for Your Dollar at College
By Karlee Weinmann, The Fiscal TimesStudents are paying more than twice as much for college, but instead of receiving addition education or a higher quality education, they’re getting a lot less for their money.
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B-School Whopper: The $100 Million MBA
By John Byrne and PoetsWharton B-school’s Class of 2013 will pay a staggering total of $100 million for the privilege of getting a graduate degree in business.
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How to Build a Better Entrepreneur
By Leah Konen, The Fiscal TimesObama loves it, the economy needs it, and a new study claims that, yes, entrepreneurship can be taught, but the question remains—can start-up-worthy passion really be learned in school?