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While the cost of debt relief for students is indisputably rising, the federal government—and the American economy—has a direct interest in boosting the number of skilled, educated workers with college degrees. College graduates earn an average of $22,000 more per year than high school graduates, and that gap is expected to widen. Corporations need skilled employees, and the government needs well-trained civil servants. The demand for college graduates is higher than ever...
...more areas that will contribute to the institution. If Princeton and Harvard are selecting top performing high school students, and those students are pursuing those interests for which they have great talents, then there should be little surprise that those students would continue to excel and to earn A grades. That should not be too difficult to figure...
...guess that’s the price you have to pay for playing in a league where you face aces named Josh—instead of Jeremy—Sowers and graduate with a degree that could earn you big-league dollars even if you’re never drafted. But sometimes, when you’re used to seasons that stretch on forever, it doesn’t feel much like baseball...
What is it about California? Somehow the land of movie-star Governors has managed to get people excited about municipal bonds--those investment workhorses that pay for new schools and sewers and earn you tax-free income all at the same time. The big show in the muni market this year is the Golden State's $15 billion offering, the largest in the nation's history and the presumptive first step in curing California's severe fiscal woes...
...pecking order is the hierarchy within the family based on the class or socioeconomic status of the adult kids. I define class by four measures: their educational level, the prestige of their occupation, how much money they earn and how much wealth they've accumulated. There's this enormous amount of socioeconomic difference between siblings from the same families...