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Is It Me Or Is This Dorm Room Crowded?

Paul Gasbarra
Sep 4, 2008

Enrollment is up this year, so up in fact that colleges are struggling to keep up. USA Today reports that many state schools are seeing far more freshmen than they anticipated. Now they have to scramble to find enough dorm rooms and classrooms to house and educate them all.

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Point Of Bipartisan Agreement: Poverty Stats Need Work

Francie Grace
Sep 2, 2008

From free market purists to advocates of government jobs programs, there's a great deal of disagreement across the political spectrum on what should be done to help America's poorest, but many people of various political stripes agree that an update is definitely in order for the formula the government uses to set the poverty rate.

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