A new report says community colleges waste billions of dollars in taxpayer money by doing a poor job of retaining and graduating their students. Over the 2008-2009, academic year–the last year when such data was available–federal and local governments spent $1 billion on full-time first year students who didn’t return the next year, according to
Continue reading …A new report says community colleges waste billions of dollars in taxpayer money by doing a poor job of retaining and graduating their students. Over the 2008-2009, academic year–the last year when such data was available–federal and local governments spent $1 billion on full-time first year students who didn’t return the next year, according to
Continue reading …More than 22 percent of Mississippians lived in poverty last year, making the state the poorest in the nation. New Mexico trailed closely behind with a 20 percent poverty rate, according to updated U.S. Census figures. New Hampshire, Maryland and Alaska had fewer than 10 percent of their populations living in poverty. Overall, 15 percent
Continue reading …More than 22 percent of Mississippians lived in poverty last year, making the state the poorest in the nation. New Mexico trailed closely behind with a 20 percent poverty rate, according to updated U.S. Census figures. New Hampshire, Maryland and Alaska had fewer than 10 percent of their populations living in poverty. Overall, 15 percent
Continue reading …More than 22 percent of Mississippians lived in poverty last year, making the state the poorest in the nation. New Mexico trailed closely behind with a 20 percent poverty rate, according to updated U.S. Census figures. New Hampshire, Maryland and Alaska had fewer than 10 percent of their populations living in poverty. Overall, 15 percent
Continue reading …The number of Americans filing first-time claims for jobless benefits dropped a bit last week, but is still too high to suggest a real decline in the overall unemployment rate. Four hundred and three thousand people made initial unemployment beenfit claims, the Labor Department said–aa number down slightly from the revised figure of 409,000 for
Continue reading …The number of Americans filing first-time claims for jobless benefits dropped a bit last week, but is still too high to suggest a real decline in the overall unemployment rate. Four hundred and three thousand people made initial unemployment beenfit claims, the Labor Department said–aa number down slightly from the revised figure of 409,000 for
Continue reading …An Ohio sheriff announced Wednesday night that he has officially called off the search for the last missing beast in the exodus from an exotic animal farm that began Tuesday night. Sheriff Matt Lutz told the local CBS affiliate that he believes a monkey who was possibly infected with herpes was eaten by another of
Continue reading …An Ohio sheriff announced Wednesday night that he has officially called off the search for the last missing beast in the exodus from an exotic animal farm that began Tuesday night. Sheriff Matt Lutz told the local CBS affiliate that he believes a monkey who was possibly infected with herpes was eaten by another of
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