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Who Benefits from Section 127?

NAICU/SHRM study finds use of employer-provided tax-exempt educational assistance has more than doubled between 1992 and 2007, with nearly one million individuals using the Section 127 benefit.

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Private College Tuition Increases 4.5 Percent for 2010-11; Institutional Student Aid Up 6.8 Percent

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February 10, 2010

Obama's years on the University of Chicago's faculty have proven a double edged sword. While his supporters accept his higher education experience as evidence of a thoughtful pragmatism, the "professor" label has just as easily been used as a bristly brush, painting the president as an out of touch dreamer who formed theories in the Ivory Tower that can't be translated into concrete policies from the White House.

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