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New York’s plan is a step forward in returning to the days when students could work their way through public college without taking on debt. But the impact on reducing the need to borrow may be minimal, especially for first-generation, low-wealth students.

Last week, four economics experts publicly debated whether the retailer represents the best capitalism has to offer, or the worst.

New York approved a state budget Sunday that included the Excelsior Scholarship, which will allow students whose families earn less than $125,000 a year to attend state public colleges and universities tuition-free.

"The New York bill is what's known as a 'last-dollar' program."

All those who care about getting big money out of politics have real reason to be concerned about Gorsuch’s record. 

New York became the first state in the country to return to a guarantee of tuition-free college for students at state public colleges and universities.

It’s hard to imagine honest, revelatory, even enjoyable conversation between people on distant points of American life right now. But in this public conversation at the Citizen University annual conference, Matt Kibbe and Heather McGhee show us how. He’s a libertarian who helped activate the Tea Party. She’s a millennial progressive leader. They are bridge people for this moment — holding passion and conviction together with an enthusiasm for engaging difference, and carrying questions as vigorously as they carry answers.

This year’s Maryland legislative session will soon end and among the potential unfinished businesses of the session is the Maryland Trust Act. Polls show that this is the type of law that Marylanders would love their leaders to take a stance on as part of the resistance to President Donald Trump’s attacks on immigrants and refugees.