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2015 Community College Fact Sheet. Washington, DC: American Association of Community Colleges, 2015. American Association of Community Colleges. American Association of Community Colleges, Jan. 2015. Web. 25 July 2015. This is a fact sheet brochure published in January 2015 by American Association of Community Colleges. AACC is the voice for community colleges, represents nearly 1,200 two-year, associate degree institutions and more than 13 million students, and serves as a national information resource. That fact sheet presents data about community colleges and their students in the United States. Because it is published by this association that is consider as national information source about community colleges, I …show more content…

Bureau of Labor Statistics. As it is stated in their website, “The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. Its mission is to collect, analyze, and disseminate essential economic information to support public and private decision-making. This statistic is significant because it reflected that people with higher levels of education have better incomes and less unemployment and it is published by credible agency, so it is very important evidence to support my …show more content…

Reuters is one of the most trusted news agencies in the world, and the OECD is an intergovernmental organization which provides a forum for discussion and cooperation among the governments of industrialized countries committed to democracy and the market economy, its members include many of the world’s most advanced countries. The OECD is a reliable source of comparable statistics, economic, and social data. This Article argues that “the United States is one of the world's biggest spenders when it comes to education, but with much of the money flowing to the wealthiest students, the country is losing ground to other nations from pre-school through college.” this article I used to support counter argument in my

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