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December 4, 2008

Study: College Tuition Increasingly Unaffordable
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Back in the United States, a new report shows college tuition is
becoming increasingly unaffordable for most Americans. The National
Center for Public Policy and Higher Education says college tuition and
fees have increased by 439 percent since 1982. The cost of attending a
four-year public university now amounts to 28 percent of the median
family income, while a four-year private university would account for 76
percent. The Center’s president, Patrick Callan, said, “If we go on this
way for another twenty-five years, we won’t have an affordable system of
higher education.”



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