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...larger group of pro-family initiatives. In just the past two months he has been waging campaigns against teenage smoking and drug use while promoting plans to make meat safer, put more educational programming on television, give working parents more flextime and offer tax credits to pay for college tuition. Of these proposals, only the last two require action from Congress...
...taken the SATs to be more tantalizing than those who had not. That's the basis for Jennifer Belle's comic first novel, Going Down (Riverhead Books; $12; 254 pages), which chronicles a year in the life of a young woman who becomes a prostitute to pay her tuition at New York University. Right away we know we are in for humor of the zanily incongruous sort because Belle has given her heroine a some-of-my-best-friends-went-to-Exeter name: Bennington Bloom. Bennington is the daughter of a well-off math professor, which makes her job choice...
...gone to the polls Wednesday. He also took time to claim credit for the continued robust growth in the U.S. economy, the rise in average American wages and the 9.7 million jobs created since he took office, reiterating his plan to make the first $10,000 in college tuition deductible: "I want every one who wants to, to be able to go to college." Perhaps feeling the sting of the multiple investigations underway into actions by Clinton aides and associates, the President took the time-honored course of blaming the media, in this case virtually accusing the press of unpatriotic...
Traditionally, public higher education was not completely free of charge, but the cost was nominal. Average tuition and room and board for in-state students at public four-year schools was less than $1,000 until 1966; tuition alone was less than $1,000 until 1985. The understanding was that states would charge a student only about a tenth of the actual cost of educating him or her in a public university. State universities were fantastically good politics: pork-barrel construction projects and middle-class entitlement programs rolled into one. Most states committed large portions of their budgets to subsidizing...
...worst increases came during the "Bush recession" of the early '90s. Between 1991 and 1994, the average state-university tuition went up at least 10% a year. Since 1980, the cost in most states has tripled or quadrupled. Today the price of a state university education is distinctly not nominal. The average total cost for a year of public higher education is $9,285. At the world-class, "flagship" state universities, costs are approaching the private-university level. Next year the University of California at Berkeley will cost more than $13,818 and the University of Virginia an estimated...