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The Money-Hungry Monster of Textbook Prices
Seniors: Imagine this scenario: You’re a newly accepted freshman wrought with a sense of anticipation and wonder as you hit the “submit” button to finalize your class roster. To fully prepare for your upcoming venture, you view your college’s bookstore website to add up prices. Then you sit, horrified and wide-eyed as your textbook cost…
USA Today: College Costs Going Up At Slower Rate
USA Today’s recent article says college costs are slowly going up: 7:21AM EDT October 24. 2012 – Sticker prices at America’s four-year public universities rose 4.8% this year, well below steeper annual increases in recent years, a report out Tuesday finds. But the rapid growth of federal grant aid in recent years also appears to be…