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In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade School and Debt
This is long, but interesting. One fast-growing American industry has become a conspicuous beneficiary of the recession: for-profit colleges and trade schools. Career Education Corporation’s culinary schools, many called Le Cordon Bleu, teach skills like ice sculpture.Smart debt, dumb debt -- there is a difference
By E.J. Dionne Jr. Thursday, March 11, 2010 Because we never face up to how much we need government to do, there is a pathetic quality to our discussion of big deficits.House Tour: Rhiannon's Affordably Cool SF Pad
CasaSugar Community member Rhiannon138 posted photos of her cooler than cooler apartment in the Su Casa group, and I just had to ask her to give us a house tour. Rhiannon and her boyfriend, Victor, both students at SFSU in their 20s, and her dog Mayo live in San Francisco. They've worked very hard to make their home comfortable and stylish on a modest budget.
What the health-care summit taught us
The Republicans simply don’t want to pass comprehensive health-care reform. That is the main lesson of today’s health-care summit. It started, as Steve Stromberg pointed out earlier, with the Republicans wanting to talk more about process than about the content of the various health-care bills.
Affordable but unliveable housing...?
McCain's response to the Gen Clark dustup made me wonder if his campaign is looking into the allegations in this possibly damaging article about Obama's record and the large numbers of his constitutents who lost their homes under his private, low-income housing plans. As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies.HHS warns of double-digit spike in health premiums
WASHINGTON — Eye-popping health insurance premium increases of up to 39 percent are a worrisome sign of the times, the Obama administration said in a report Thursday as it tried to tap public frustration with high costs to revive the stalemated effort to overhaul health care.
Proposed premium increases by WellPoint's Anthem Blue Cross for Californians purchasing their own coverage set off a wave of criticism and forced the company last week to announce a postponement. Now, the Health and Human Services Department says similar pressure on premiums is being felt in at least six other states.
Jimmy Carter's "Malaise" Speech
Good evening.
This is a special night for me. Exactly 3 years ago, on July 15, 1976, I accepted the nomination of my party to run for President of the United States.
More Miranda Idiocy
More Miranda Idiocy Rationalizations by Eric Holder about the Miranda rights of suspected terrorists lack seriousness. by Stuart Taylor Jr. Saturday, Feb.Rob's Details Interview
COFFEEIt's the unseasonably cold November of 2008 when I go to New York's Bowery Hotel. There's a young man sitting in the garden, wrapped in about nine black sweaters and wearing a wool hat, smoking cigarettes, sipping a latte the size of his head, and furiously making notes on a script in the bitter cold. I have read about teenage girls lighting themselves on fire in front of his hotel, but at the moment Robert Pattinson is warming his hands on a coffee cup.
50 Cheap Date Ideas
Discount Dating
A lighter wallet is no excuse to turn date night into a luxury. Get out of your sweatpants, put down the cold pizza, and check out these 51 budget-friendly date ideas that will get you off the couch and into each other's pants.
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Get on thin ice.
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