Re: NYTimes.com: College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.

[Thomas Krichel <krichel@openlib.org>]

nawin.gupta@comcast.net writes

> EDUCATION | December 03, 2008
> College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.
> By TAMAR LEWIN
>
> Tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, while
> median family income rose 147 percent.

After the stock market bubble, the housing bubble, this is the 
next bubble to burst. Colleges will have to cut cost, and 
libraries (and the academic publishing sector), will be among the 
hardest hit.

Cheers,

Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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