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In a column this week, Ron Meyer of the Young America's Foundation revealed the truth about Obama's bogus jobs claims, and explained why the president is losing support among college-age voters: Since Inauguration Day, the president’s approval rating with the 18-to-29 crowd set a record for the most precipitous drop in Gallup Poll history, from 77 percent approval to 48 percent. The Youth Misery Index (which combines youth unemployment, average graduating college debt and the national debt) is at an all-time high.
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A major investigation by The Washington Post has concluded that several members of Congress steered earmarked tax dollars to universities with which close relatives had been involved. The price tag for these earmarks was $60 million.
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A student who had discovered a noose made of rubber bands was angered by an administrator's insufficient response, so she created the list to make the noose seem more threatening.
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"By the way, government subsidies have impacted upon rising tuition costs. It's a conundrum here."
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It would be silly to expect the free market to fix higher ed's problems, because there is currently no free market in higher education, argued Jeff Selingo of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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William McMahon, a student at the University of Missouri, wrote a column for The College Conservative arguing that President Obama is wrong to force high school students to stay in school until they are legal adults.