IT DOESN'T TAKE a Ph.D. to see that college tuition costs are skyrocketing. Data from the Census Bureau and College Board show it will cost you 202 percent more to sport a mortarboard today than it did in 1981, and during the last year alone average tuition costs have risen 9.6 percent at public four-year institutions and 5.8 percent at private schools. Government has attempted to help families foot the bill through a combination of subsidies and tax credits. But is this purported solution really part of the problem?
A recent study by Rep. Howard "Buck" McKcon (R-Calif.) and Rep.John Boehner (R-Ohio), entitled "The college Cost Crisis," reports with alarm that "though funding for the Pell Grant program has increased dramatically over the past three decades," college is becoming less affordable. The testimony of Patrick Kirby, dean of enrollment at Missouri's Westminster college, cited in the same report, suggests that because would be more accurate than though.
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