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Renee Montagne has the Last Word in business.

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) talks to Renee Montagne about divisions within the Democratic Party as Congress begins to debate long-term budget proposals. He says if the choice is between reducing the debt or creating jobs, most Democrats will pick jobs as the main focus.

Renee Montagne talks to NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson about the latest news involving federal spending.

When he was growing up, Noe Rueda's family didn't have a lot of money. He wanted to help out, so he became a young entrepreneur. And in the process, Rueda found a way to go to college.

Thinking back to when he was little, Rueda says that his mother often provided for herself and her four children by making less than $8,000 in a year.

"And if she reached the $8,000, she would actually be happy that she made that much," Rueda recently told his former high school economics teacher, Alex Fernandez .

Today regents at the University of Colorado voted to revamp the journalism program on the Boulder campus.

Regents voted 5-4 to close CU's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. It’s a change administrators say is necessary to kick-start a new program for information and communication technology. CU Regent Kyle Hybl cast the tie breaking vote in favor of closing the school.