{"id":25316,"date":"2019-10-25T16:30:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=25316"},"modified":"2019-10-25T16:30:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:30:55","slug":"college-tuition-skyrockets-by-40percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/college-tuition-skyrockets-by-40percent\/","title":{"rendered":"College tuition skyrockets by 40% due to lower state funding"},"content":{"rendered":"

College tuition has been hiked by about 40% because of decreased state funding. This has been detrimental because the cost of higher education has risen to historic levels in the last ten years.<\/span>
\nAccording to a <\/b>report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities<\/b><\/a>, a budgetary think tank, the average college tuition at four-year public institutions across the 50 states had risen by 40% between 2008 and 2018. This translates to a little above $2,700.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0College tuition hikes to historic levels<\/b><\/h2>\n

State funding has plummeted by $6.6 billion, and this has instigated dire consequences because college tuition has risen to historic levels.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>
\nResearchers have noted that the rise in college tuition emerged at a time the U.S. financial crisis was being witnessed, and this was not a coincidence.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe report notes:<\/span>
\n“Many states closed revenue shortfalls after the recession and its subsequent sluggish recovery through sizable budget cuts, as opposed to pursuing a more balanced mix of responsible and targeted cuts and revenue increases.”<\/span>
\nIt is also stipulated that between fiscal years 2008 and 2012, for each $1 raised by state lawmakers in new revenue, $3 was cut was from existing spending.<\/b>
\nAs a result, in the 10-year period, 41 states were forced to spend less on each student. This translated to an average of 13% less.\u00a0<\/span>
\nHowever, some states, such as Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arizona, and Alabama, were made to cut each student\u2019s funding by at least 30%.<\/span><\/p>\n

College tuition increases twofold in some areas<\/b><\/h2>\n

College tuition in some regions reached bizarre levels as it doubled. For instance, college fees at four-year institutions in Louisiana increased twofold.<\/span>
\nAdditionally, the cost of attendance in some states, such as Hawaii, Georgia, Florida, Colorado, California, Arizona, and Alabama increased by more than 60%.\u00a0<\/b>
\nThese sharp elevations of college tuition have been harmful as they have made college less affordable.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe issue of college fees has been contentious in American society. Some legislators have weighed in the matter, <\/span>for example, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have been proposing for <\/span>tuition-free colleges<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

College tuition has been hiked by about 40% because of decreased state funding. This has been detrimental because the cost of higher education has risen to historic levels in the last ten years. According to a report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a budgetary think tank, the average college tuition at four-year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":25317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}