I had to take out loans to pay for college. Why shouldn todays students bear the same burden?
Across the nation, college tuition has risen dramatically in the last two decades due to increases in the cost of health care, energy, and other factors. Paying for college today is much different than in previous generations, when a summer job could cover the cost of tuition for an entire semester. In addition, government assistance for low- and middle-income families was drastically reduced in the 1980s, when many grant programs were gutted in favor of student loan packages.