A college degree has long been a ticket to the U.S. middle class.
It typically confers higher pay, stronger job security, greater home ownership and comparatively stable households.
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The following message was released by family members of Boaz, who has disappeared, leaving on Wednesday morning and has since been out of contact.
“Our brother Boaz left yesterday (Wednesday) from Jerusalem to the south – Route 60 in his white Nissan Micra at 11:00 AM.
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The Trump administration on Wednesday asked Congress for an additional $4.5 billion in emergency funds for the U.S.-Mexico border as the administration contends with a surge of Central American migrant families, with the bulk of the money for shelter and care.
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Recently reports in the Israeli media state that members of the Likud party are trying to woo new MKs from the Blue and White Party to jump ship and join Likud, so that the party can establish a government without having to include Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party.

The situation that is a parent’s worst nightmare and has claimed the lives of dozens of children in the past occurred again today in a Rishon LeZion parking lot on Moshe Dayan Street. 
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U.S. companies in April added the most jobs in 9 months, a sign that hiring remains strong amid solid economic growth.
Payroll processor ADP said Wednesday that businesses hired 275,000 people last month, up from just 151,000 in March.
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If anyone thought that the fact that there is no coalition yet will slow the 21st Knesset down from getting to work early, they were wrong. A total of some 900 new bills were proposed by members of the Knesset during the first two days of office.
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Police on Tuesday night were summoned to Meah Shearim, receiving a report of a break-in.
When the police vehicle entered the neighborhood, it came under attack.
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The fear was persistent.
As the Russia investigation heated up and threatened to shadow Donald Trump’s presidency, he became increasingly concerned. But the portrait painted by special counsel Robert Mueller is not of a president who believed he or anyone on his campaign colluded with Russians to interfere in the 2016 election.

A man was arrested in Washington on Wednesday after reportedly making death threats against conservative talk show host Ben Shapiro.
Shapiro told Fox News he couldn’t comment on pending legal proceedings but confirmed the situation, as reported by TMZ, on Twitter, thanking law enforcement “for their quick and hard work here.”