Wage Hike Will Aid Students
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I am surprised that David Barnes ("Boost skills, not wage base," Readers' Forum, Sept. 20) knows of no one who stays at, or right around, minimum wage, considering that he is from Logan, where many university students are exploited for cheap labor.
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If an undergraduate degree is your ticket to a middle-income job, is it also a foregone conclusion that a graduate degree will boost your salary even higher?
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Medical students say a planned fee increase at the University of Auckland will add more than $5000 to the cost of a medical degree.
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City school officials are expected to announce a five (m) million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will help pay for the district&#39;s secondary school redesign plan, and create new partnerships with colleges in the area.
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Airline tickets are up, school  tuitions are up, gasoline is way up. Salaries? Eh, not so much.  Here's a list of ideas for pinching pennies without giving up  fun this summer.
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Union leaders and advocates for the poor are uniting behind an effort to raise the state's $6.75-an-hour minimum wage for the first time since 2001 and to tie future increases to the inflation rate, a move that would make Massachusetts only the fourth state in the nation to establish that link.
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Handing New York workers their first boost in the minimum wage since 1997, the state Senate yesterday overrode Gov. George Pataki&#39;s veto of a bill that will increase the wage by $2 over the next two years.
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Students from research-led universities want the government to consider establishing a national bursary scheme to boost widening participation to higher education.
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The US Senate has voted overwhelmingly to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in nearly a decade, a major promise of new Democratic congressional leaders.
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A program is helping assess the value of academic and counseling support services for low-income people who  show potential to work in high-growth jobs.
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Federal employees would receive a 3.5 percent pay raise next year under a bill approved by a key House Appropriations subcommittee yesterday.
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For many people, higher education is a ticket to a high-paying job. But what happens when the cost of that same ticket becomes a deterrent for a career that will pay a modest or middle-income salary?
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The Bush administration yesterday proposed boosting the nation's main financial aid program for low-income college students by the largest amount in more than three decades, the latest in a flurry of measures this week by Congress and the White House to make higher education more affordable.
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A government campaign will seek to encourage people to upgrade their skills through education and training.
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The price of college again rose faster than the inflation rate this year, climbing 6.6 percent at four-year public schools and outstripping increases in the financial aid that lowers what most students actually pay.
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Harvard University announced yesterday a series of breaks for middle-income students, increasing financial aid enough to effectively slash costs by as much as 50 percent and eliminating required student loans.
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School leavers could earn an extra Â£1,050 a year if they have the right work experience, a survey suggests.