We added a new topic page: Cost of College. Today the mantra is that everyone should--and deserves to--go to college. This assumption itself needs to be questioned. But let's run with it for a moment and do some basic economics: What happens when the demand for a good goes up? Exactly: the price goes up with it. Now, what happens when the government starts "guaranteeing" payment for virtually anyone who wants that good? That's right: throw in some government-enforced assistance, and you've got a skyrocketing increase in the cost of college. As Krista Kafer observes, “federal loans have contributed to the rise of tuition. Tuition and fees at public and private four-year institutions have risen 38 percent in the past 10 years. In the past 22 years the cost of a four-year public col­lege education has increased by 202 percent.”

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