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...there's another thought experiment in the end: What if we tried the Chinese experiment and there was only one child per family from now on? I'm not saying I advocate that - it's uncomfortable - but the numbers are amazing. We were 1.6 billion people at the end of the 19th century and now we're at 6.6 billion people, and we're heading to 9 billion people at the middle of this century if we keep going this way. If we all went down to one child per family, within a century we'd be back...
...cost of a Yale education will be significantly reduced for families making less than $200,000 per year, Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced on Monday...
Yale’s new financial aid plan for middle- and upper-middle class families closely resembles a Harvard plan announced in December that applies to families making less than $180,000 per year...
Harvard’s plan calls for families making between $120,000 and $180,000 per year to pay 10 percent of their income, while Yale’s plan calls for families making between $120,000 and $200,000 per year to contribute that same percentage...
Both Harvard and Yale’s press releases gave examples of a family earning $180,000 per year. Harvard would expect such a family to contribute approximately $18,000, while Yale said such families would be expected to contribute $23,050—more than 10 percent of income—if they only had one child in college and $11,650 if they had two children in college...