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Today's College Degree Should Be as Accessible as a High School Diploma

The University of Central Florida Forum | Posted 04.28.2013 | College
Read More: Key to Advancement, Student Debt, Upward Mobility, Cost of Education, Student Loan, High School Diploma, Middle Class, American Dream, College Degree, College News
The University of Central Florida Forum

Possession of a college degree today is as important as holding a high school diploma was a century ago. Today, undergraduate education should be open to all those academically qualified -- and at no cost. Public education must be truly public up at least through the bachelor's degree.

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Field of Dreams: Explaining Economic Mobility Through Baseball

Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.29.2011 | Politics
Read More: Tea Party, Downward Mobility, Upward Mobility, Carnegie, American Dream, Social Mobility, Congress, Obama, Middle Class, Vanderbilt, Baseball, Horatio Alger, Politics News
Mark Olmsted

America is galloping backward to a degree of class immobility unseen since pre-World War I Europe. Almost everyone can expect to die now in the same class they were born in.

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Debating the Two-Party System

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: P. J. O'Rourke, Debate, Bloomberg TV, Upward Mobility, David Brooks, Two Party System, Zev Chafets, Iq2, Arianna Huffington, Democrats, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

The two-party system has not just narrowed our choices, it's narrowed our thinking. It has deeply infected our political discourse, our media, and our politicians.

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Arianna Talks The Two-Party System At IQ2

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Politics, Social Mobility, Video, Debate, Bloomberg TV, Panel, Iq2, Upward Mobility, Democrats, Arianna Huffington, Republicans, Politics News
Huff TV

Arianna Huffington didn't pull any punches discussing the two-party system at last night's Intelligence Squared Debate. Arianna's view of the Ameri...

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Lost Decade For American Income

Wall Street Journal | By CONOR DOUGHERTY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Living Standards, Downward Mobility, Lost Decade, Income Inequality, Economic Crisis, Upward Mobility, Wage Stagnation, Income, Poverty Rate, Business News

The downturn that some have dubbed the "Great Recession" has trimmed the typical household's income significantly, new Census data show, following yea...

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Capitalism for All?

Matt Fellowes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Interest Rates, Financial Guidance, Private Bankers, Checking Account, Democratizing Capitalism, Upward Mobility, Banking Fees, Capitalism, Financial Products, Mortgage Crisis, Business News
Matt Fellowes

American consumers are needlessly losing hundreds of billions of dollars in unnecessary banking and checking fees, inflated interest rates, and missed opportunities.

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America/Afghanistan

Matthew Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Detroit, Upward Mobility, Class Warfare, Medical Centers for Excellent, Afghanistan, World News
Matthew Anderson

In America and Afghanistan, the contributions of the underclass have been co-opted by the affluent. If there is anything that America needs to import to the world it is a healthy portion of real opportunity.

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The Shrinking Middle Class In Las Vegas

wsj.com | TAMARA AUDI | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Jobs Las Vegas, Unemployment, Las Vegas, Middle Class, Las Vegas Real Estate, Upward-Mobility, Business News

LAS VEGAS -- Drew Johnson and his wife, Tina had the life many Americans only dream of: A big house in a swanky suburb, a backyard hot tub, and a $100...

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