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...nice market bounce, thanks to bullish comments by long bearish analyst Meredith Whitney. On Monday, July 20, it was an opinion coming from the investment-strategy team at Goldman Sachs, which reported that the firm was raising its estimates for what companies in the S&P 500 would earn this year and next...
...coined shorthand terms to describe a generation frustrated by its plight. In France that term is jeunes diplômés. In Greece, Generation 600. And in Spain its members are called mileuristas. "The mileurista," explains Daniel Lostao, president of the Youth Council of Spain, "is someone who earns €1,000 ($1,300) a month, despite all their education and training. They've got master's degrees and speak multiple languages, but they can only get a low-end job, where they're lucky to earn €1,000 a month. It makes you wonder: what...
...community colleges he visited during the 2008 campaign. These institutions are our nation's trade schools, training 59% of our new nurses as well as cranking out wind-farm technicians and video-game designers - jobs that, despite ballooning unemployment overall, abound for adequately skilled workers. Community-college graduates earn up to 30% more than high school grads, a boon that helps state and local governments reap a 16% return on every dollar they invest in community colleges. But our failure to improve graduation rates at these schools is a big part of the achievement gap between the U.S. and other...
...some Republicans, who say the shift to direct lending - in which Uncle Sam acts as your loan officer - will cost thousands of jobs and keep colleges from choosing between competing loan programs eager to underbid one another. (Read about the new college-loan plan: pay back by what you earn...
...aced the CSAT, got into Korea University, and was vaulted into a sphere of job opportunities completely beyond the reach of his father. Sure, wealthy students have access to more personal tutoring and highly rated cram schools, but with hard academic work, every Korean has the chance to earn a higher place in society...