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Real Price of College is Falling
RALEIGH — A reporter for USA Today, using data from the College Board, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Internal Revenue Service, wrote a front-page article that turned conventional wisdom on college prices on its ear. Dennis Cauchon wrote that the tuition burden shouldered by students at public universities “has fallen by nearly one-third since 1998, thanks to new federal tax breaks and a massive increase in state and federal grants to most students and their families.” In his analysis, Cauchon focused on “what students actually pay in tuition and fees” as opposed to “the published tuition price.”