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Is College Debt Worth It?

For an article in USA Today,Laurence Kotlikoff, an economist at Boston University attempted to answer the question using number-crunching data from the free software he developed called ESPlanner Basic.
He analyzed four hypothetical scenerious to determine lifetime disposable income of 18-year olds:
1)      One who borrows $30,000 a year to attend a four-year college.
2)      One who borrows [...]

September 1, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: College Tuition, Student Loan Debt  No Comments

Stanley Tate says; “Don’t Raise Tuition. Raise Hell!”

Colleges, both private and public, have long been cashing in on the higher education racket by raising tuition costs to stay competitive and profitable. Because most people assume that the high cost of college is necessary for a quality education, few have bothered questioning it -until now.
Lawmakers in the state of Florida are [...]

April 1, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Academic poverty, College Tuition, Dissatisfied College Consumers, Outrageous College Tuition  No Comments