Both College Tuition Prices and Financial Aid See Large Increases

Both College Tuition Prices and Financial Aid See Large Increases

According to the College Board's annual report on trends in college prices, increases in tuition this past year were matched by higher ...

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Compared With Other Countries, French Retire Early In Large Numbers

Compared With Other Countries, French Retire Early In Large Numbers

Recent protests in France over raising the minimum age at which an individual can receive reduced retirement benefits from 60 to 62 and full...

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GDP Grows at Rate of 2% in Third Quarter of 2010; Experts Say the Modest Growth Not Enough

GDP Grows at Rate of 2% in Third Quarter of 2010; Experts Say the Modest Growth Not Enough

The U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) today released an "advance" estimate of real gross domestic ...

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Poverty in Suburbia

The American suburb, to which, for the better part of a century middle and upper-class families have fled from the poverty of inner cities, ...

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15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth and Inequality in America

15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth and Inequality in America

Business Insider's Gus Lubin writes that the "rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer." In addition to his bri...

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Self-Employment Rates Remain Higher Among Older Workers

Self-Employment Rates Remain Higher Among Older Workers

According to a report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, self-employment rates remained higher among older workers than younger workers in ...

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Some Cry Foul Over U.S. Dollar's Devaluation

Some Cry Foul Over U.S. Dollar's Devaluation

An article in the New York Times questioned whether a currency war has started over the U.S. dollar's continuing devaluation, with a n...

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Employment Declines in Large U.S. Counties as Average Weekly Wage Sees Increase

Employment Declines in Large U.S. Counties as Average Weekly Wage Sees Increase

According to a report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment declined in 296 of the 326 largest U.S. counties from March 2009 to Mar...

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Real Earnings Down in Month of September

Real Earnings Down in Month of September

According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics article posted today, real average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory employees fe...

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Registration open for ICPSR Data Fair

Registration is now open for the ICPSR Social Science Data Fair, and full descriptions of the sessions and presentations are available at th...

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Long-Term Consequences of the Great Recession

Long-Term Consequences of the Great Recession

The world economy appears to be on a slow road to recovery, yet the scarring, especially outside of the United States is set to remain . Lau...

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New Study Shows Hispanics in U.S. Outliving White, Black Populations

New Study Shows Hispanics in U.S. Outliving White, Black Populations

According to a new report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, His...

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Working Women

Working Women

UMass economics professor Nancy Folbre argues in the New York Times that among married couples, wives have been less hard hit by the economi...

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Consumer Confidence Index Pulled Down by Unemployment

Consumer Confidence Index Pulled Down by Unemployment

According to a recent article published by ABC News, consumer confidence has yet to respond to recent increases in the Dow Jones Industrial...

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Unemployment Insurance Claims Drop to Lowest Level since July

Unemployment Insurance Claims Drop to Lowest Level since July

The unemployment insurance weekly claims report released this Thursday by the Department of Labor revealed a decrease in the number of fili...

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Job Openings, Hiring See Growth, but not Full Recovery to Pre-Recession Levels

Job Openings, Hiring See Growth, but not Full Recovery to Pre-Recession Levels

According to a new report released today by the U.S. Labor of Bureau Statistics, there were 3.2 million job openings on the last business da...

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Latino Turnout Might be Low

Latino Turnout Might be Low

According to a new poll by the Pew Hispanic Center , Latino support for Democrats remains as strong as ever with registered Latino voters su...

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The ICPSR Social Sciences Data Fair

You are cordially invited to attend ICPSR's Social Sciences Data Fair scheduled for November 8-11, 2010. The meeting Web site is schedu...

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Immigrants a Net Positive for the Treasury

James P. Smith, an economist at the Rand Corporation, reported at a c onference put on by the centrist Brookings Institution , that accordin...

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Internet Use and Mental Health

A recently published piece from Reuters reports on a study conducted in China that examined the contributions of internet use to developing...

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Language Diversity in the United States

Language Diversity in the United States

A piece published in June 2010 by the National Center for Children in Poverty demonstrates the diversity of languages spoken at homes thro...

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Rise in Average Tuition for 4-Year Public Universities

Rise in Average Tuition for 4-Year Public Universities

A report by the National Center for Education Statistics finds that the average tuition paid by in-state undergraduates at public 4-year u...

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The Growth of Netflix

The Growth of Netflix

The New York Times reports that Netflix , the movie rental company, is seeing a continued increase in its number of subscribers. The compa...

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TARP Could Break Even or Make a Profit

TARP Could Break Even or Make a Profit

In an effort to avoid an economic collapse, the government authorized up to $700 billion dollars in investment failing banks, insurance and ...

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One in Five Have HIV

One in Five Have HIV

A recent post on the Center for Disease Control's website states that about every 1 in every 5 urban sexually active MSM (men who have ...

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