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Su Tseng-chang, Chairman of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party, speaks about 'A New Partnership for a New Age: Strengthening U.S.-Taiway Relations' on June 13, 2013 at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
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An analysis from the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution in Washington estimated that the benefits of a four-year college degree are equivalent to an investment that returns 15.2 percent a year, even factoring in the earnings students forego while in school.
The median age of Hispanics, whose foreign-born contingent is by far the largest immigrant group, is 27, according to the Brookings Institution. The median age of non-Hispanic whites in the United States is 42.
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relying on federal handouts, limping from appropriation to appropriation," said Robert Puentes, a senior fellow in the Brookings Institution 's metropolitan policy program."Even though Washington is mired in debt and dysfunction, Amtrak is reinventing itself." Read more »
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quickly to crises. Presidents assumed power and got away with it, said Stephen Hess, a presidential historian at Washingtons Brookings Institution who worked with four presidents. Some of Congress inability to act like a co-equal branch of government is rooted 6/19/13 from The News & Observer Read more »
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the Islamic Republic for many years as an academic, a government official, and now as a scholar at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. I fully understand the rationale for the argument that the elections are pure farce. Iran is, after all, an Islamic from Brookings Institution Read more »
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