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The Viewpoint

Students can rent, buy used, buy new or buy a digital copy of their textbooks at the Cal State Dominguez Hills bookstore in Carson, Calif., which is trying to provide more information to students about book costs and alternatives. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Colleges Look For Ways To Cut Cost Of Textbooks

August 19, 2014

MCT NEWSFEATURES (EDITORS: Resending for all needing.) (PHOTOS) (HAS TRIMS) By Carla Rivera Los Angeles Times (MCT) It’s the middle of summer and while many other students are hanging out at the...

Duke Freshman Says She Pays Tuition with Porn Star Earnings

Duke Freshman Says She Pays Tuition with Porn Star Earnings

February 27, 2014

By Jane Stancill The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) (MCT) DURHAM, N.C. — When “Duke” and “porn star” appear in the same headline, the university gets a public relations headache. Duke...

Is college still worth it? Pew research says yes

Don Lee February 11, 2014

WASHINGTON — High unemployment has left many Americans questioning whether the soaring cost of college makes it a good bargain for today’s young adults. But there’s strong evidence that a four-year...

The student loan crisis: How middle-class kids get hammered

Sarah Amandolare February 11, 2014

Last October, in between arguments over the debt ceiling, the federal government somehow found time to send me an email. My student loan payment was 70 days past due, the message read, so the government...

Tuition increases at US public colleges at lowest rate in decades

Tuition increases at US public colleges at lowest rate in decades

October 25, 2013

By Larry Gordon Los Angeles Times (MCT) LOS ANGELES — The rise in tuition at public colleges slowed this year to the smallest increase in more than three decades, although financial aid has...

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