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        <title><![CDATA[Richard K Vedder - Bloomberg View Contributor]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Richard Vedder, an economist, directs the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and teaches at Ohio University. He is an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Congrats on That Diploma. You May Not Need It.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[College graduation season is in full bloom, and this year American institutions will confer about 1.8 million bachelor's degrees.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 15:00:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cut Off Harvard to Save America]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[University endowments promote inefficiency and are anti-meritocratic. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:03:38 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Colleges’ Athletics Arms Race Is for Losers]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2013 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stop Subsidizing Colleges’ 100-Year Debt Binge]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:35:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[College Costs Will Keep Rising Under Obama Plan]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:30:47 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Needs Push to Shake Up Higher Education]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Professor Petraeus and Other Higher-Education Stunts]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[When I first heard that David Petraeus was going to make $200,000 for teaching a course and giving a couple of lectures at City University of New York, I was not indignant.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 23:42:06 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Do 2,358 College Administrators Do?]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-07-15/napolitano-expert-in-bloated-bureaucracies</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:06:07 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Colleges’ Stealth Tax on Family Savings]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 22:00:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Did You Graduate in Four Years? Congratulations]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:59:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Tell if College Presidents Are Overpaid]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 22:30:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama’s Underwhelming Ideas for College Reform]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:16:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Research Prowess of U.S. Colleges Is Exaggerated]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:30:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will State Colleges Become Federal Universities?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Unholy Alliance Against Online Learning]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:30:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Five Reasons College Enrollments Might Be Dropping]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:31:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Make Colleges Tell Us More About Graduates’ Fate]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2012-10-11/make-colleges-tell-us-more-about-graduates-fate</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:40:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[College Is No Place for Remedial Education]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:00:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[End U.S. Student Loans, Don’t Make Them Cheaper]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 22:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why College Isn't for Everyone]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:10:01 GMT</pubDate>
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