Greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. were up by 1.4 percent in 2007, after a decline the previous year, according to newly released figures in a report from the Energy Information Administration, the statistics arm of the Energy Department.
The picture was grim this week as the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education released a report predicting that a college education could soon become unaffordable for most Americans. In the past 25 years, the cost of college has increased by 439 percent. [The New York Times notes that this figure is not adjusted for inflation.]
The speaker at the October policy breakfast series event, co-sponsored by Public Agenda and Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship, will be Drew Altman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
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