Word: medians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite such pressures, Meyerson managed to restrain Penn's tuition increases. By 1980 Penn's base tuition was $5,270, more than double the cost a decade earlier, but inflation had risen at roughly the same rate. So had median family income. If tuition was higher, so was America's ability...
...next, Penn's base tuition increased 15%, to $6,900, far more than the 10.3% boost in the cost of living. The following year the disparity became starker. Penn's tuition rose 16%, 2 1/2 times the slowing rate of inflation and more than three times the growth in median family income...
...acceptance rate went down from 14.6 percent to 12.8 percent. The median starting salary rose...
According to the Law School study, the median rent for studio and one-bedroom apartments increased by $375, or 79 percent, after rent control was eliminated...
...percentage tuition increase has dropped each of the past five years, but still exceeds the growth rate of median family income...