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One explanation posits that tuition increases simply reflect the increasing costs of producing higher education due to its high dependence upon skilled labor.According to the theory of the Baumol effect, a general economic trend is that productivity in service industries has lagged that in goods-producing industries, and the increase in higher education costs is simply a reflection of this ...
Traditionally, the state of California has been the largest public supporter of the UC system. In response to state budget woes, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau in 2011 made the claim that his own university is turning into a federal and not a state institution because of the inversion of the proportion of funds given by each ...
Here are the top 10 states in the US with the most people in ‘financial distress’ — and red states are suffering more than blue states Christy Bieber January 8, 2025 at 6:10 AM
The amount of student loan debt in America will exceed $1 trillion this year, and is already greater than the total for credit card debt for the first time ever. On Wednesday, President Obama ...
The UCLA Bruin Success Scholarship will provide about 1,000 students from families with the greatest financial need an additional $2,500 per year — up from $2,000 when launched last fall.
More than half of U.S. students go to "racially concentrated" schools. [13] Twenty percent of U.S. students are enrolled in districts that are poor and nonwhite, but only 5 percent live in poor white districts. [14] The number of school districts in the United States has been increasing, reflecting a growing race and social class divide.
The site said California ranked as the worst state to move to, with low scores in multiple categories. The state ranked No. 40 for affordability, No. 48 for economy, No. 49 for education and ...
The state with the highest percentage of people having a bachelor's degree or higher educational attainment was Massachusetts at 50.6%, and the lowest was West Virginia at 24.1%. The District of Columbia had a percentage significantly higher than that of any U.S. state at 63.0%. [1]