Higher Ed Cuts, Tuition Hikes Worsen Low-Income Students’ Struggles
As a follow-up to the previous post on black-white differences in economic mobility:
Higher Ed Cuts, Tuition Hikes Worsen Low-Income Students’ Struggles: State cuts to higher education have led colleges and universities to make deep cuts to educational or other services, hike tuition sharply, or both, as we explain in our recently released paper. These tuition increases are hitting low-income students particularly hard, lessening their choices of schools, adding to their debt burdens — and likely deterring some from enrolling in school altogether. ...
Posted by Mark Thoma on Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 08:50 AM in Economics, Income Distribution, Universities |
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