Why Is College in America So Expensive?
The outrageous price of a U.S. degree is unique in the world
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12 min readSep 11, 2018
Before the automobile, before the Statue of Liberty, before the vast majority of contemporary colleges existed, the rising cost of higher education was shocking the American conscience: “Gentlemen have to pay for their sons in one year more than they spent themselves in the whole four years of…