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One in 20 Congress Members Lack a College Degree

Sick of college? You could ditch your animal house for a position in the House or Senate. A recent article from ScrippsNews reported that 28 members of Congress, or 5%, do not have college degrees. These include Steve…
MTA, Pittsburgh: Stop Counting on Students to Bail You Out!

mastercheerios@xanga wrote up a really good post about how the New York City Subway system (formally the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or MTA) is going to "phase out" student discounts and free fares to deal wi…
Advice: My Friends Have Expensive Taste

From one of our readers: Hanging out has been kind of awkward lately, since it seems like all of my friends are always able/willing to spend more money than I'd like to. I go to a college with a rather high tuition, s…
Student Debt on the Rise

The New York Times' college blog The Choice recently posted about a new report that found the average debt of college graduates rose by $4,550 over the past four years to a staggering $23,2000. This news comes from th…
Pittsburgh Aims To Tax Its Students

Like many cities, Pittsburgh is dealing with its own financial crisis. But unlike other cities, Pittsburgh aims to make up some of the difference by taxing college students, as reported in The Wall Street Journal. On…
University of California Tuition Hike: Robin Hood to the Rescue?

The New York Times' Room for Debate blog has an interesting post about the current dilemma facing the University of California system of schools. UC colleges are suffering a $1 billion deficit, only partially allevia…
Should Parents Pay for College?

Our recent Ten Ways to Pay for College post got a lot of thought-provoking comments, many of which concerned whether or not parents should pay for their children's college education. I'll start of my re-posting some o…
Dollarish Digest: T Minus 7 Days to Black Friday

It's Friday! Which means, more significantly, that Black Friday is only a week away. And, if we can manage to find time between tryptophan and football, we're going to spend it preparing—that means itineraries, shopp…
Let These College Dropouts Help You Pick a College

Image Source The New York Times' "You're The Boss" blog had an inspiring post about two former undergrads who dropped out to pursue their start-up website, MyFit.com, a service which—ironically—helps high school stud…
How To Get Free Books

So as a recent college graduate, I have accumulated a massive amount of college textbooks. They are the unfortunate ones that got rejected when I tried to buy them back to my university, so now they're piled up collectin…