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Issue Briefs by Category<\/span><\/h2>\n

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About the Issue Briefs<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The goal of CSFE Issue Briefs<\/em> is to provide an accessible educational resource on important issues and fundamental concepts. CSFE Issue Briefs<\/em> are well-grounded in sound scholarship, yet written in plain language for everyday readers. Hence the tagline: \u201cHard Research, Easy Reading.\u201d CSFE distributes the series of issue briefs by email, social media, and its website.<\/p>\n

All Issue Briefs are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This allows for the work itself, or adaptive or derivative works, to be republished by anyone, so long as CSFE is given an attribution and the republishing is for non-commercial uses. Issue Brief authors have attested that this material has not been previously published and does not qualify as self-plagiarism. Direct intellectual property inquiries to csfe@wcu.edu.<\/p>\n

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