tuition
13 pieces tagged “tuition”, newest first.
Opting Out of College
From stress to soaring costs to diminished value to misplaced priorities, young people have more reasons than ever to consider other options.
Maher on Biden’s ‘Higher Education Scam’
Biden’s motive: Entice more young people into leftist reeducation camps.
The Astronomical Cost of Higher Education
Even families with a three-figure salary find it difficult to pay the bills.
Pandering Clinton Steals From Sanders’ Playbook
The Democrat mimics the Socialist with “free” college goodies.
Hillary Clinton Would Make College Even More Expensive
In the days ahead, millions of kids will pack their bags and leave home (hopefully for good) to go to college. For parents experiencing this for the first time: welcome to the biggest financial scam in America. Richard Vedder, an economist at Ohio University and an expert on college costs, puts it very plainly: “Colleges and universities may be the least cost-efficient institutions in the United States. No industry, perhaps other than prostitution, has seen less productivity improvements than higher education.”
Why College Tuition Is Out of Sight: The Federal Government
Our health care system and our system of higher education have a lot more in common than you might think. As I explained in a previous column at Forbes, in both systems a third-party payer pays a good portion of the bill, leaving consumers and producers with perverse incentives to take advantage of it. The financing of both systems is dysfunctional. There is much waste and inefficiency. And low-income families are the least well served.
Another Education Subsidy
If elected president, Hillary Clinton has promised to spend $350 billion to make college “more affordable.” The U.S. already has an $18 trillion debt (and growing by the day), but Clinton wants to add to it. That’s not affordable. Too many young people are graduating from universities unable to find jobs, or are underemployed. Slate.com references a 2014 study of youth joblessness by the Economic Policy Institute. It found “...roughly 8.5 percent of college graduates between the ages of 21 and 24 were unemployed. That figure is based on a 12-month average between April 2013 and March 2014, so it’s not a perfect snapshot of the here and now.