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  • Here’s what’s driving increasing college enrollment
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    New data from the Labor Department show more high school graduates enrolled in college last year than in 2017. Nearly 69 percent of 2018 high school graduates went to college, compared to 67 percent the year before. College enrollment has steadily risen over the last decade or so. Click the audio player above to hear […]

  • How is it that gas prices can be so different block to block?
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    Drivers know that gas prices can be kind of all over the map. It varies quite a bit by state. And sometimes you find notable differences between stations in the same confined area, even though most factors affecting cost such as local taxes, the cost of crude, transportation fees,  are applicable to all stations in […]

  • In this file photo illustration taken on April 19, 2018 shows the logo of online streaming music service Spotify displayed on a tablet screen in Paris.
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    Google and Amazon have both created new, free, ad-based tiers of their music services, cutting at Spotify's main profit model.

  • A photo of National Rife Association spokesperson Dana Loesch decorates a wall at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center during the NRA's annual convention May 6, 2018 in Dallas, Texas.
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    In recent years, the NRA has increased spending on communications and advertising.

  • A group of chefs from Charlotte, NC, cooked at the James Beard House in New York as part of a rebranding campaign for the city.
    Clay Williams, courtesy of the James Beard Foundation

    Charlotte, North Carolina, wants visitors and potential residents to see it as a culinary capital.

  • A tale of two payment apps
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    Venmo and Zelle look like they should be competitors. But the two payment apps serve very different audiences.

  • Men work at a distribution station in the 855,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York, in February.
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    The rate of membership growth in the U.S. has proven difficult to maintain.

  • A farm worker harvests lettuce in a farm field near have the border town of Calexico, California.
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    The U.S. government issued a record 240,000 H-2A work visas last fiscal year. Farmers employ temporary workers from Mexico, Central American nations and other countries to plant, maintain and harvest their crops.

  • Supreme Court to decide if gay and transgender workers are protected by Civil Rights Act
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    Amy Howe of SCOTUSblog talks about three cases and the workplaces involved.

  • Customers enter a Kohl's store on Aug. 21, 2018 in San Rafael, California.
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    Kohl's is expanding a deal with Amazon that allows online shoppers to return their merchandise at Kohl's stores.

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