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• Position: STATELINE - Cost of education - Brief article

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The cost of education has nearly doubled over 20 years, according to the American Institute for Economic Research. That's three times the rate of the Consumer Price Index. Along with huge tuition and fee increases at colleges and universities, tuition and fees at private elementary and high schools rose by more than 250 percent. The cost of books and...