For the rest of us, college is still affordable

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@jnm123

Let’s take it one step further. Would you be able to say, SteveMA, that ‘back in the day’, for middle-class incomers, was there a wider array of college choices–top to bottom cost-wise–then there are now?

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<p>Public colleges were a lot cheaper (adjusted for inflation), so that “working one’s way through (public) college” was a much more doable option back then. Private colleges have also gone up in price, though not as much as public colleges have.</p>