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  • Is College Worth It? Rising Costs, Falling Benefits Hamper Higher Education

    At the Republican primary debate on November 10, 2015, presidential candidate Marco Rubio called for “more welders and less philosophers.” Fact-checkers quickly pointed out that this statement was based on comparing starting salaries of philosophers to mid-career salaries of welders, but the sentiment is far from Rubio’s alone. Last year, President Barack Obama was pressured…