* Update, 10/16, 8 30 p.m.: Not surprisingly, overall application figures continue to rise as states continue to share updates; as of Tuesday afternoon, we'd counted more than 130,000 applications across the 15 state-based exchanges.
Despite its value, the cost of a public college education has risen as state and federal investment in education has declined.
Such defaults are extremely rare -- California, for example, has never defaulted -- but the swaps' prices rise as states or municipalities slide into tough times economically.
These are just two of the questions being asked by students as they assess how to achieve their career goals because, among other reasons, tuition has continued to rise as state support for higher education has diminished.
Private housebuilders ensured long-term price inflation and profits by banking land and maintaining excess demand for homes, and profitability rose as the state withdrew from social housing supply.
"In recent years, the maternal mortality rate rose as federal and state policies began restricting access to reproductive health services.
But then it began a sharp rise, as states revamped their welfare programs to emphasize work.
"Doubts Rise as States Hold Sex Offenders After Prison" (front page, March 4) describes what is clearly a deeply flawed system that states have resorted to in an attempt to keep sexual predators away from society after their jail sentences end.
But after Mack learned that water rates in California rose as a result of the state's drought conditions, she questioned to what extent higher bills there and elsewhere could be affecting families' bottom lines.
But after Mack learned that water rates in California rose as a result of the state's drought conditions, she questioned to what extent higher bills there and elsewhere could be affecting families' bottom lines.
It is still too soon to tell whether that number will rise as more states consider laws, as many administrators have started discussing the matter with parents and school lawyers only in the past six months.
