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Your Finance: College and cost-of-living factor

Students walk through the Dowling College campus in

Photo credit: Chris Ware | Students walk through the Dowling College campus in Oakdale. (Sept. 27, 2012)

From where I sit, $250,000 a year -- the amount President Barack Obama and other Democrats say is top-tier household income -- is a substantial amount of money.

But I don't sit in Manhattan or Honolulu, where folks say they can easily blow through that much paying rent and child care, and not living like kings.

Cost-of-living disparities are in focus now, and not just in the national...

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