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Federal ban on Internet gambling lifted, raising hopes that California will follow
Once a week, the Poker Club at UCLA meets off campus to discuss strategy, look at uncommon hands and, of course, play some poker. Sometimes the members play for money, but more often they just play for fun. What they cannot do, however, is play poker for money on the Internet.
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Study shows fewer students hold jobs
The number of undergraduate students with jobs has decreased significantly since the 1970s, according to a study published Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Judith E. Scott-Clayton, assistant professor of economics and education at the Teachers College of Columbia U.
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Column: Why eating the rich won’t solve any problems
Liberals, it's often said, pride themselves on being generous with other people's money. With their own money, though, the story can be quite different.
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Column: Universities must ease post-college transition
To whom it may concern: I regret to inform you the employment rates and salaries of recent graduates have dropped significantly in the past few years.
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Column: Despite scorn from political parties, Occupy protests expose real hardships
What's the trouble with America? The answers to this question lies boldly in what defines the lives of ordinary Americans, what the new cool prefers to call the 99 percent. Commonplace answers, however, seem uncommon to American politicians — a number of whom belong in the high-tower 1 percent.
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Column: The truth about income inequality
Over the last three or four decades, income inequality has increased in most developed countries.
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Federal bill cuts Pell Grants for about 100,000 students nationwide
Pell Grants will be cut for an estimated 100,000 students nationwide as part of a nearly $1 trillion federal omnibus appropriations bill passed into law Friday.
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Editorial: Obama succumbs to higher ed lobby
For-profit colleges often lure students, especially minorities, with promises of quick degrees and high paying jobs. However, in reality these students are often left with loads of debt, unprepared to enter the workplace.
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Full-time and debt-free
Even with student loan debt totaling $1 trillion and a weak job market, some U. Minnesota students will graduate debt-free because they worked their way through college. More than 60 percent of University students graduated with debt in 2010.