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Posted inEducation, Higher Education

Shifting Burdens: How Students & Families Paid for College from 1996 to 2012

Anyone who has received a college financial aid award letter knows how complicated and opaque America’s system of higher education finance is. Policymakers also have limited information about how the myriad sources of college financing all fit together — and how they have changed over time. There are, of course, well-known analysis and reports that […]