Word: tuition
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According to Knowles' letter, one of the most important financial problems facing the College is that tuition is increasing faster than inflation...
...original Republican plan to balance the budget included $18 billion in cuts from student aid. Democrats agree that we must balance the budget, and it is fair to expect a wide range of people to share the burden. But cutting student aid so drastically at a time when skyrocketing tuition costs make it increasingly impossible for families to pay for their children's education is the cruelest way to make ends meet. Newt Gingrich calls what he is trying to create an "opportunity society." Yet he is robbing millions of young people of the opportunity to go to college...
...citizens are perhaps most puzzled of all. Rising standards of living, to many, mean largely an increase in the number of things they "must" buy. This is not just crass materialism; many of the new musts are not goods but services--medical insurance, day care for young children, college tuition for teenagers--that have rocketed in price. Small wonder that so many people feel they are working harder and harder just to keep...
...Westlawn neighborhood is comfortable, but the $860 monthly mortgage payments and $300 a month owed on the family's 1992 Firebird eat up about a third of their earnings. The couple would like to keep Adrian in the Roman Catholic school system but cannot because first-grade tuition would be $2,500 a year. After attending a Catholic kindergarten, Adrian is a first-grader in a public school that his father says is "not the kind of environment anyone would want for their kids." Rita's parents now baby-sit for Clarissa while her mother works, but the grandparents plan...
About 90 percent of graduate students get free tuition, which at Yale is $19,000 a year...