Thursday, April 10th, 2008
According to Student PIRGs, the nonprofit public advocacy group behind the Make Textbooks Affordable website, college textbook costs have increased by four times the amount of inflation since 1994. Today, students are paying more than $900 annually for books which equals about 20% of the tuition cost at the average ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
College costs continue to surge, rising at a pace that is at least twice the rate of inflation. At some private universities the cost of tuition, room, board, books and related expenses has pushed the annual expenditure above the $40,000 mark, well out of reach of so many families.
The ...
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