The Student Lending Analytics blog has a good post outlining the simultaneous—and surely not coincidental—rise in American tuition costs and decline in the United States’ world ranking of percentage of young citizens with college degrees. It even has a nifty chart, so check it out.

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Jesse Singal is a former opinion writer for The Boston Globe and former web editor of the Washington Monthly. He is currently a master's student at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Policy. Follow him on Twitter at @jessesingal.