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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Francis, the 266th pope in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, is inheriting an institution struggling to deal with the fallout of years of child sexual abuse by priests and infighting within the Vatican's central administration problems that have alienated believers.

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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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