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...Graduate school applications increased by 6 percent in 2001. But in the following year, they rose by 13 percent, Heiser said...
...Ph.D. applications have increased by 16 percent at Northwestern, 7 percent at Michigan, 8 percent at Dartmouth, and 12 percent at Johns Hopkins. Overall applications for graduate study—most of which are for Ph.D.s—are up by 15 percent at Duke, 9 percent at Dartmouth, 5 percent at Stanford, 9 percent at Yale, and 9.5 percent at Princeton, according to deans at those universities...
...Stanford and Northwestern are even planning to reduce next year’s class size for their incoming Ph.D. students by 5 percent and 8 percent, respectively...
...These increases are dramatically higher than the 3 percent average annual increase in graduate school applications over the last decade, noted in a 2007 report by the Council of Graduate Schools...
...just a few of the many suggested changes in economic policy: "...create a true progressive tax system by reducing rates on those earning under $200,000 and raising top rates on the fortunate few back at least to 38 percent, as in the 1990s when the economy was steaming ahead...strengthen unions - one of the few mechanisms able to improve real income for workers - by enacting the Employee Free Choice Act...Is all this just 'class warfare,' according to the rhetoric of conservatism? Answers Warren Buffett, now the wealthiest American: 'It's class warfare only because my class started...