US Education
Challenge: Increase College Graduation Rates
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Challenge: Increase College Graduation Rates
"The US Census Bureau in 2009 reported that, nationally, 9% of 18-24 year-olds and only 27.5% of those 25 years and older had a bachelor's degree or more. Massachusetts is the state where the completion rate is the highest with 37.8% of citizens 25 years and older having a bachelor degree." [1]
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Guantanamo Detention Center
"Six Former Detainees Are to Begin Their Lives as Free Men in Uruguay
“They will be able to bring their families here if they want,” Uruguay’s defense minister, Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro, told a local news station. “They will be accompanied by people to help them adjust to the language and other things. They will have to find jobs.”
They will be able to “live in peace, sit in the stadium grandstand and become fans of some soccer team,” he added.
The former prisoners had been transferred to Uruguay on Sunday, the outcome of talks with the U.S. that gathered momentum this year after President Mujica agreed to receive the prisoners as a humanitarian gesture and to help President Barack Obama in his efforts to close the Guantanamo facility.
After the transfer announced by the Pentagon on Sunday, 136 detainees remain at the U.S. military prison in Cuba, including 67 approved for transfer.
In November, the Pentagon transferred seven detainees from the prison, sending one to Kuwait, two to Slovakia, three to Georgia and one to Saudi Arabia.
In Pakistan, Mr. Faraj wrote in the letter, he was captured and mistakenly identified as a terrorism suspect—leading to his detention."
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