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• Study: Student Debt Increasing for Four-Year Graduates
• Five Best Wednesday Columns
• Okla. college officials say they're more efficient
• Colorado voters approve 25 percent taxes on recreational marijuana

Study: Student Debt Increasing for Four-Year Graduates Posted: 06 Nov 2013 08:25 AM PST This October, the U.S. Department of Education released the brief report "Degrees of Debt." The report compares the effects of student debt on three cohorts of students who received a bachelor's degree over a 15-year period, and has some interesting - and in one case surprising - findings. The report looks at each of the cohorts a year after graduation and compares their student loan borrowing; and the relationship between their student debt and the likelihood of going to graduate school and of living with their parents. On the borrowing front, the report found that over time, a greater percentage of students are borrowing and, in constant 2009 dollars, they are borrowing more.

Five Best Wednesday Columns Posted: 06 Nov 2013 06:51 AM PST By the end, many of those Democrats would supply the manpower, money or simply the photo ops for his campaign," Stile explains. Christie's leadership during Superstorm Sandy helped him keep the governorship, but it was his Democratic support that really propelled him to victory. For example, "Christie won the unofficial support — and admiration — of George Norcross, the South Jersey insurance executive and the state's most powerful Democrat, by carrying out an overhaul of the state's higher education system that poured more money into that region." At base, "Christie revived the transactional, political dynamic that vanished during the rocky tenure of [Democrat Jon] Corzine, his predecessor." By working out deals with certain Democratic mayors, Christie won the support of some of the more liberal towns in New Jersey.

Okla. college officials say they're more efficient Posted: 06 Nov 2013 06:48 AM PST Oklahoma's higher education chancellor told a legislative panel Tuesday that the state's 25 colleges and universities are on track to save $451.7 million in five years. Chancellor Glen Johnson said the ...

Colorado voters approve 25 percent taxes on recreational marijuana Posted: 05 Nov 2013 10:20 PM PST By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado measure to impose sales and excise taxes of 25 percent on newly legalized recreational marijuana and earmark the first $40 million in revenue for public schools was approved by voters on Tuesday, Governor John Hickenlooper said. The move showed a willingness on the part of Colorado voters to tax marijuana for the public benefit even as they roundly defeated a broader tax measure that would have increased state income taxes to raise $1 billion for schools. Colorado and Washington last year became the first U.S. states to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes. But Colorado, whose constitution requires a statewide vote to approve tax increases, left it to voters to decide how to tax the newly legal drug.

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