Posted on 10/26/2011 1:02:22 PM PDT by NoLibZone
[snip] Tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities jumped 8.3 percent nationwide for the 2011-2012 school year, the organization said. The numbers were skewed by California, which raised in-state tuition and fees by a whopping 21 percent this year. But even without California, costs rose seven percent, according to the College Board’s annual “Trends in College Pricing” report released on Wednesday.
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Private, non-profit colleges raised prices as well according to the report, but not nearly as much as their budget-strapped public counterparts. Tuition and fees rose 4.5 percent, which is still more than twice the core rate of inflation.
“Private institutions don’t rely on state budgets for funding,” Baum told CNBC.
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The new Obama administration measures—which the White House says do not need Congressional approval—are aimed at lowering payments for millions of borrowers.
Beginning next year, an existing program that allows borrows to base their monthly payments on a percentage of their income will be enhanced. Under the current “Income-Based Repayment” program, borrowers can limit their payments to 15 percent of their income, with the ability to have the balance of the loan forgiven after 25 years. Under the new program, the cap will drop to ten percent, forgivable after 20 years.
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This is typical vote-buying welfare that invites abuse and fraud.
True story. I struck up a conversation with a woman in an airport while waiting for a flight. The economy and the plight of recent college graduates came up. She openly (without a hint of shame) told to me how her daughter plans to take advantage of Sugar-Daddy Obama’s generosity.
Her daughter is majoring in a graphic design program at an expensive CA university and already has $56,000 in student loans.
Realizing that the labor market is depressed, instead of graduating, she is staying in school and living off student loans as long as she can. Which is what millions of others will do too.
She has no incentive whatsoever to limit how much debt she racks-up. She knows that she will not be held accountable to pay it back. Why stop at $56,000? $100,000! $150,000! $200,000! Sky’s the limit when you are spending free money!
After 20 years of repaying not much if any of her student loans, her debt will be forgiven.
How neat! Like free money or something!!
That is exactly how the system will be gamed.
And the politicians won’t stop bribing the people with their own money until we are Greece on steroids.
So sad.
Easy, cheap, government-guaranteed money caused the housing bubble. Now it has caused a higher education bubble.
This is the vote-buying politicians’ way to keep the bubble inflated and keep the money flowing to one of their best mouth-pieces... liberal professors.
“White House Student Loan Measures Will Barely Dent Soaring Costs”
Did anyone think they would? Probably the same people who thought adding 30 million people to insurance rolls would somehow slowdown healthcare costs.
“This is typical vote-buying welfare that invites abuse and fraud”
Stupid vote-buying, more like it, since young people, especially college-educated young people, already vote Democrat. Oh, and they don’t vote.
FUBO GTFO! 451 Days until Noon Jan 20, 2013
One of the saddest parts about this, is that it is luring a whole new demographic into the dependency/entitlement populations. People who otherwise would have made their way in life with some self-respect, without the bribery to vote dem.
The government is the 1% club.
No matter what it does, it can only help 1%.
This generally means the other 99% get screwed.
I left that part out because the post was aleady a little long and I didn’t want to send too many people over the edge...
But she added insult to injury by telling me that in her daughter’s line of work, many times she will be paid cash or on a 1099/self-employed basis.
So, she explained that since she doesn’t plan to show much income tax on her tax returns anyway, the 10% of discretionary income will be practically 0.
I am profoundly sad to say that this woman was NOT an Obama-supporting liberal.
That is what happens when a country goes Socialist.
Everyone takes as much as they can, until there is nothing left to take.
As Prof. Alexander Frazer Tytler supposedely said back in the 1800’s (paraphrasing): A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority, he said, always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the treasury with the result that democracy always collpases over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship.
That describes Greece today. It could very well be America soon.
I left this part out because the post was aleady a little long and I didn’t want to send too many people over the edge...
She added insult to injury by telling me that in her daughter’s line of work, many times she will be paid cash or on a 1099/self-employed basis.
So, she explained that since her daughter doesn’t plan to show much income tax on her tax returns anyway, the 10% of discretionary income will be practically 0.
I am profoundly sad to say that this woman was NOT an Obama-supporting liberal.
That is what happens when a country goes Socialist.
Everyone takes as much as they can, until there is nothing left to take.
As Prof. Alexander Frazer Tytler supposedely said back in the 1800’s (paraphrasing): A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the treasury with the result that democracy always collpases over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship.
That describes Greece today. It could very well be America soon.
Here’s what I see: He has been looking for a way to funnel money to the DOE, I think he found a way. Just guessing...
I’m not sure how discretionary pay is defined but even if you assume they must pay 10% of gross pay the biggest loan a typical college hire (making $45K per year with 3% annual raises over 20 years) could pay off completely is $62K.
So what is to stop a student from borrowing as much as he can—$100K, $150K, whatever, and using the extra money to pay off just the $62K portion of the student loan!
For my son’s former college roomates now making minimum wage at Starbucks the most they could pay off over 20 years with their own money is $23K.
Last year we visited colleges as my daughter was a high school senior.
All four state colleges we visited had massive building projects going on even though three of the four have had stable enrollments for the past 20-30 years and didn’t need the new buildings.
In the 1960s and early 1970s colleges needed new classroom buildings and dorms because of the massive influx of students. Today new buildings are a luxury.
I’m guessing the loan forgiveness after 20 years, will keep getting put off “just a couple more years”. Lowering the minimum strikes me as a way to keep people chained to these debts longer, while making them think they’re being helped.
When people go to college, they know what it costs per credit. The can easily find out what books are going to cost before they sign up for a class. They signed papers agreeing to pay those costs. Now they want someone to rescue them from the consequences of their bad decisions.
Sorry, I have no sympathy for 'em. And it ticks me off that Obama is pandering to the whiners.
Are you saying the new student rec center with the water slide is not a core educational need?
You must be one of those narrow minded conservatives.
Yep.
It’s a recipe for cheating and financial disaster.
It will be a race to the bottom to figure out how to have as little discretionary income as possible, so as to pay back the least amount of student loan debt possible.
Corrupting and corrosive.
Like all Socialist programs.
When a government loses legitimacy for the majority of the population, it becomes easy to rationalize any manner of taking or tax avoidance since the government, itself, is viewed as illegitimate.
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