Tag: college
member name: Paul Tosto
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June 01, 2009 06:31 PM EDT --
Is higher education the next financial bubble ready to burst?
Tuition and fees at community colleges in Minnesota and Wisconsin are among the highest of any state in the nation . And tuition . . .
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April 13, 2009 02:54 PM EDT --
We started asking people last week to tell us a story about the economy around them, just as a new way to look at and report on the economy.
We're getting some pretty interesting stories . . .
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May 06, 2009 12:43 PM EDT --
We've seen college enrollment rise in Minnesota during the recession and that's good. It likely means people who've seen their jobs cut are trying to retrain.
But the enrollment . . .
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September 01, 2009 12:49 PM EDT --
If your goal right now is a job in Minnesota, you are better off without a college degree.
That's my conclusion after coming across this nugget from the state labor department's most recent . . .
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September 01, 2009 02:52 PM EDT --
Given that most current Minnesota job vacancies require only a high school diploma, we asked this morning if job seekers in Minnesota were better off without a college degree .
Well, don't . . .
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September 15, 2009 08:56 AM EDT --
Lindy Ellenbaum drives the 539 Metro Transit bus from the Mall of America to Best Buy headquarters and back. The recession, he says, is changing who rides and where they go.
Ellenbaum, a . . .
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October 06, 2009 01:34 PM EDT --
New college grad Allison Troyer told us recently about leaving Minnesota after she couldn't find find work here. We asked her for some detail. For people concerned about the state's future workforce, . . .
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June 11, 2009 03:12 PM EDT --
We've all reached into the kids' piggy bank on occasion for some quick change. But in this economy are people having to seriously tap their children's accounts?
Minnesota Public Radio News wants . . .
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June 22, 2009 12:22 PM EDT --
I posed the question recently: Are you reaching into the kids' savings to pay bills ? Now, I've scrounged up some reasonably reliable data -- a recent national survey by financial services giant . . .
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August 12, 2009 12:56 PM EDT --
Is college worth it? My MPR colleague Mike Caputo's been talking to Minnesotans in our Public Insight Network this week about the value of higher learning in this recession. Here's his report: . . .
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March 23, 2009 04:42 PM EDT --
It's an odd time to be heading for college. Besides the usual angst of applying, there's a lot of uncertainty about who gets in and how to pay. Even the colleges are sweating a little . . .
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March 25, 2009 09:01 PM EDT --
Data on the nation's output for the fourth quarter of last year comes out Thursday. The market expects it to show a 6.6 percent decline. The preliminary estimate came in a few weeks ago at . . .
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March 26, 2009 02:36 PM EDT --
So you've been saving for years for your kid's education. Then the economy tanks and suddenly the college dough you'd put in a stock fund is worth half what you planned. You try to tap your . . .
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April 21, 2009 10:47 AM EDT --
A few weeks ago, Dave Schaenzer of Minneapolis wrote us about sending his kids to college in Canada and the potential savings given the exchange rate.
We asked him to tell us more. He . . .
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May 06, 2009 04:03 PM EDT --
My post earlier today on putting off education to pay the bills got me thinking about an experiment Normandale Community College in Bloomington tried this term -- free tuition in selected classes . . .
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October 02, 2009 06:34 PM EDT --
After posting Leaving Minnesota? this afternoon, the Minnesota Private College Council sent me its new research showing another worry: our state is also a net exporter of college-bound high school . . .
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