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Affordable College: The New American Dream
A three year college degree is just one proposal to rethink the cost of college education. With the average graduate carrying $30 thousand in debt and middle class parents depleting their retirement funds to pay for higher education, has the time come for radical reform?
By Warren Olney • • 52m ListenA three year college degree is just one proposal to rethink the cost of college education. With the average graduate carrying $30 thousand in debt and middle class parents depleting their retirement funds to pay for higher education, has the time come for radical reform? Guest host Barbara Bogaev rethinks the cost of college.
Also, chaos ensues as trains filled with refugees are halted in Hungary. On today's Talking Point, in Denver legal marijuana is everywhere, but there's nowhere to smoke it. We look at the new fight over public consumption.
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3 storiesTrains Filled with Refugees Are Halted in Hungary
Today, authorities in Budapest, Hungary halted all international trains out of the capital after refugees and migrants rushed the cars. In recent days, more than two thousand were forced to camp out at the station; others were stranded on trains in route.
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Dental Surgery. Divorce. Decapitation. There are few things that are as painful as paying for college. With average student debt at $30,000 and the cost of college growing by about three to four percent a year, presidential hopefuls and educators are churning out proposals to lower college costs and make borrowing less painful .
Read the story34 minLegal Weed Is Everywhere, but There's Nowhere to Smoke It
Wanna toke in Denver? You better have a place to do it. Pot smokers living in one of the 23 states and the District of Columbia, where recreational or medical marijuana is legal, will tell you just how ironic this is. Marijuana is legal but smoking in public is not.
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