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Activists turn attention to higher ed funding

Lawmakers should include an additional $125 million for public higher education in next year’s budget, advocates said Tuesday, telling stories of full-time students working multiple jobs, adjunct professors struggling to get by, and adult workers overloaded with student loan debt.

When the next step isn’t college

To students for whom going to college would be something they are doing primarily to satisfy someone else’s expectations for them or to get away from a bad circumstance, a four-year college is often not the right next step.