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Francois Lenoir / Reuters Can Americans Keep Up With Buying the New, New Technology?
The rich place a great premium on owning fancy, cutting-edge technologies, while poorer residents say that’s less important.
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DoublePHOTO studio/shutterstock We Need Smartphones! (And All the Latest Stuff)
Has digital technology become a necessity for Americans today? Totally.
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Charles Dharapak / AP What If the Answer Isn't College but Longer High School?
Students attend P-Tech programs in New York for six years. They can leave with a high-school diploma, an associate’s degree, and a chance to work for IBM.
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Visual3Dfocus/shutterstock 10 Ways to Afford College
From Christian outreach to lottery-funded tuition, educators and politicians—and the occasional business executive—are trying to ease the costs.
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John Gress / Reuters The Online College That Credits Life Experience
Competency-based learning measures knowledge, not time.
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The Student-Debt Crisis Isn’t What You Think
Most of the defaults occur among students at community colleges or for-profit schools.
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Turning Life Experience into Sheepskin
“Competency-based” education gives students credit for what they have already learned.
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Larry Downing / Reuters Community College Doesn't Have to Be the Endgame
Two schools are trying to shift the stigma of two-year colleges by making an associate’s an affordable pathway to a four-year degree.
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A Sure Route to a Four-Year College
In central Florida, a community college degree earns you a ticket to a cheaper B.A.
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Brad Montgomery / Flickr The Power of Free Community College
In Tennessee, students are given an opportunity to obtain more education, without financial constraints.
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Courtesy of Northeast State Community College Community College for Free!
Tennessee offers money and mentors to give low-income students a chance.
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National Journal We're All in This Together (Right?)
As the sharing economy matures, its innovations range from car-sharing to tech-savvy butlers to simple giveaways.
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National Journal A High-Tech Butler, at Your Service (For $25 a Week)
The rise of the sharing economy has created an ecosystem of startups that sell services nobody had imagined before.
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters In Search of the Anti-Uber
Some say the so-called sharing economy has gotten away from its central premise—sharing.
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National Journal Unshopping, Un-Uber
The original conception of the "sharing economy" persists in small institutions that leave capitalism behind.
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Jason Riedy / Flickr The Insecure World of Freelancing
Millions of workers now go it alone—who will provide them with basic labor protections?
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National Journal Share and Share Alas
It's fun and flexible to freelance for places like Uber—but workers beware.
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STAFF/AFP/Getty Images Contractor Versus Employee
Not every company in the sharing economy treats its workers as Uber-ish freelancers.
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Freelancers, Unite!
Trying to weave a social safety net for the fast-growing millions of workers who go it alone.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Customizable Retirement
In Wisconsin, a healthcare employer shows that the choice between working and not working needn’t be all or nothing.
