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California students feel economic pinch

California students feel economic pinch

Granite Bay, CA. – Chelsea Jackson, a Granite Bay High School se nior, is finding herself in a position that many stu­dents are facing right now.

Jackson, who had her heart set on attending the University of Oregon, is now having second thoughts.

Looking at debt one way to judge colleges

Looking at debt one way to judge colleges

St. Charles, MO. - Two months and they will no longer walk familiar halls. Two months and they will experience the real world. Two months and they will hold the key to their future.

Seniors across the nation are preparing for a day they have been waiting for since the start of high school. Graduation.

Recipe for Recession

Recipe for Recession

The U.S. based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) defines a recession as ‘a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months’, in other words it is a financial crisis.

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Change. It’s the word at the tip of everyone’s tongue with the way America’s economy has been shooting downward. We’re covering the affects these hard times are having on our close community and how a change in the economy is hitting wallets harder than we ever expected.

AHS students cope with economy

AHS students cope with economy

Annandale, VA - Standing at the main entrance of Tysons Corner at 11:30 p.m. on a Tuesday night, senior Ayda Salamanca anxiously, once again, checks the time on her new cell phone that she managed to buy from her most recent pay check. Exhausted from the seven-hour shift she has just finished, without any other method of transportation, Salamanca is awaiting for her boyfriend to come pick her up.