It is almost time for high school graduates to go off to college, moving away from home for the first time.

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When our kids go off to college, we want them to have the confidence, judgment and strength to take care of themselves.

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The college credits will do little to boost attendance, since they will mostly go to well-off households who send their kids to college anyway.

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Too many college students go off to school without understanding finances, said Shalonda Jones, a representative of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling.

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There are families who are putting off retirement to make sure their kids can go to college.

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Where do you get off telling kids they don't have to go to college?

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The laid-off worker who has to go back and retrain at a community college at the age of 55 to try to get a new career in a new field -- she needs a champion.

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The laid-off worker who has to go back at the age of 55 to retrain at a community college -- she needs a champion.

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The laid-off worker who is having to go back and retrain at the age of 55 at a community college -- she needs a champion.

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At Fairfield University in Connecticut, the University's College Democrats kicked off its "dorm storm" campaign, an effort in which students go door-to-door on campus with voter registration forms.

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