College Access

Last week, Congress approved legislation that would transfer more than $20 billion over the next five years from over-subsidized banks to need-based student financial aid. The primary beneficiaries of the legislation are low- and middle-income students whose abilities to enroll in and complete college are restricted…

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Responding to our coverage of last week's higher education reconciliation bill, Cato's Neal McCluskey asks, "How can you love an auction because it supposedly uses market forces, while simultaneously supporting the gargantuan market distortion that is the overall federal student aid system?"

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The U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of colleges and universities, "America's Best Colleges 2008," was published last week with typical fanfare. High school students and their parents likely flipped immediately to the "top schools" ranking, where they found-gasp!-that Princeton University earned the top spot…

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Earlier this month we described the challenges many veterans face paying for college, because the GI bill benefits they've earned through military service cover only about 75 percent of the average cost of attendance at a four-year public college or university, yet often make them ineligible for Pell…

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