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Thursday, August 23, 2012

Study: College becoming unaffordable to Middle Class


By Donna Gehrke-White, Sun Sentinel
4:23 a.m. EDT, August 23, 2012

Many Florida families have been paying up to 25 percent of median income for public in-state college costs — out of reach for some middle-class parents who have taken recent pay cuts or lost jobs, according to a new study.

Some South Florida families are paying even more — plunking down what amounts to about a third of the median income for Floridians for students to attend Florida International University or Florida Atlantic University, according to the study co-written by the Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy at FIU.

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