Does a College Degree Protect your Career? Unemployment Rate for College Graduates Highest on Record

As many students begin applying for the 2010 academic school year, students are looking at an economic climate where endowments are hit, student loans are more restrictive, and parents have seen 529 plans sink along side their retirement plans.  The upcoming school year will be highly competitive and expensive but will it be worth it?  Now college itself isn’t a direct link to a career and many bristle when they hear about vocational training.  Yet when someone is paying $50,000 a year, you have to ask what exactly you are paying for.

MSM: Israel troops admit Gaza abuses

An Israeli military college has printed damning soldiers’ accounts of the killing of civilians and vandalism during recent operations in Gaza.