The cost for low income families of sending a child to a four year public institution in the United States has risen from 13% of family income in 1980 - this is the one year cost, average cost for low income families of sending a child to a four year public institution has risen from 13% of family income in 1980 to more than 25% today.

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It was an awesome institution when I was a child, selling for 2 cents on the newsstand, what you paid for a Pepsi or The Daily News.

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It costs more to keep a child in a young offenders' institution than it would to send him to Eton.

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Redefining marriage would, by further eroding its central norms, weaken an institution that has already been battered by widespread divorce, out-of-wedlock child bearing and the like.

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Man and Woman: A Defense, " say, "Redefining marriage would, by further eroding its central norms, weaken an institution that has already been battered by widespread divorce, out-of-wedlock child bearing and the like.

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