Talent & Education

A consensus of research shows home-visitation programs for families with young children improve child development, while saving taxpayers money that would otherwise go to remedial education, incarceration and other costs.

Michigan has reduced funding for low-income child care by 67 percent since 2007. Research shows that high-quality centers can boost educational performance.

For thousands of low-income students, a four-year college degree is only within reach if they start at community college, saving money on tuition. State lawmakers are leaning on colleges and universities to make that process easier by ensuring students’ hard-earned credits transfer with them.

Think you can still pay for college delivering pizza? Think again. Bridge presents 6 realities facing today’s college student.

Hemlines rise and fall, but tuition just goes up.

The state bears blame for the high cost of higher education, but students aren’t blameless, either.

The median U.S. household income in 2014 was $52,781, with families spending 35.9% of their income on public university ($18,943 sticker price, annually) or 80% on private university ($42,419 sticker price, annually). Also in 2014… Pick a year: 197519801985199019952000200520102014 Why college costs so much Chapter 1: College costs have doubled, and other frightening facts Chapter […]

NEXT: Click here to go to 2014 → Adjusted to 2014 dollars: The median U.S. household income in 2010 was $53,497, with families spending 31.5% of their income on public university ($16,855 sticker price, annually) or 72.5% on private university ($38,799 sticker price, annually). Also in 2010… A 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes Haiti, with a death […]

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