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For the week of Sep 01, 2008 --- Vol. 6, Issue 36

Labor Day Holiday

I sincerely hope you have been enjoying your complimentary subscription to the Mortgage Market Guide Weekly. In honor of the Labor Day holiday, the next full issue will arrive on Monday, September 8. In the meantime, as a new school year is beginning across the country, I thought you would enjoy the facts below about education in America.

Also this just in...Be sure to keep a look out for a great new addition to MMG Weekly coming soon: Video View "articles." The dedicated team at MMG Weekly is constantly searching the industry for the most timely and relevant information for MMG Weekly View articles...and now this information will periodically come to you in both text and video format. Stay tuned!

The Mortgage Market Guide Weekly is the industry's leading publication of this type, and I'm pleased to provide this valuable resource to you. If you feel that any of your clients or associates would benefit from keeping up-to-date on market and economic trends with this easy-to-read format, please let me know, and I will be happy to add them free of charge.

Best wishes to you, and please feel free to contact me if I can be of any assistance to you or your valued clients at this time!

The Mortgage Market View...

Gotta Go Back... Back... Back to School Again

The cast of Grease 2 began the movie with an ode to the end of summer and the beginning of the school year. As we head into the first week of September, parents and students across the country are singing the same tune.

In honor of the new 2008-09 school year, here are some interesting facts about education in America:

56 million students are expected to enroll in kindergarten through high school this year.
3.3 million students are expected to receive high school diplomas this year.
10.9 million school age children who speak a language other than English at home - 7.8 million of them speak Spanish at home.
Over 30 million children participate in the national school lunch program (based on 2007 data).
There are 7.1 million teachers in the United States, with 2.9 million of them teaching elementary and middle school.
More than 18 million students are enrolled in colleges and universities this year, which is up from 13 million students 20 years ago.
More than 3 million students are expected to earn their college degrees this year.

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