Tag: young adults

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Education is the holy grail of success.  But too many young men in this country don’t graduate high school, much less aspire to a college degree. It’s clear that completing high school improves one’s chances of moving up the economic ladder.  So why doesn’t this incentive always work? At a time of greater attention to…

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A recent Brookings Institution report confirms for the first time how severely uninformed many college freshman are about the impact of the debts they’re taking on to fund their education. This isn’t entirely surprising. But with tuitions continually rising and students now often forced to borrow the equivalent of a house down payment by t…