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Romulox

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2. The price of college is set by supply + demand, not by the availability of gov't aid.

Reply to stockholmer (Original post)

Sat Feb 4, 2012, 11:26 AM

Feb 2012

Increasing gov't aid will, if anything, increase demand for college, and therefore can be expected to RAISE the price of a college education.

Real world data more than bears this out.

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In 1983, my 4 year degree cost me BlueToTheBone Feb 2012 #1

The price of college is set by supply + demand, not by the availability of gov't aid. Romulox Feb 2012 #2

Agree completely.... Fastcars Feb 2012 #3

by increasing the amount of available credit (subsidised loans) & outright grants, an artificial stockholmer Feb 2012 #4

I disagree. Demand for higher education is driven by the limited economic opportunities Romulox Feb 2012 #5

if that were indeed the case, then you wouldn't have seen the explosive increases in tuition you did stockholmer Feb 2012 #6