Evidence Against the Free-College Agenda: An Analysis of Prices, Financial Aid, and Affordability at Public Universities

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dc.contributor.authorDelisle, Jason D.en
dc.date.accessed2020-05-17en
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-16T20:05:08Zen
dc.date.available2020-06-16T20:05:08Zen
dc.date.issued2020-05-01en
dc.description.abstractThe 2020 Democratic presidential primary elevated free-college plans to the top of the national agenda, with many candidates proposing expansive programs to help states make public colleges and universities free for in-state students. This report questions the need for free-college policies by assessing affordability and prices at public universities for in-state students after all financial aid is applied and how these “net prices” have changed since the mid-1990s. This report focuses on two groups of students at public four-year institutions that broadly encompass the students whom free-college policies are meant to assist: those from families earning less than $125,000 and those who receive federal Pell Grants, which are generally restricted to families earning less than $75,000.en
dc.description.sponsorshipAmerican Enterprise Instituteen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttps://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Evidence-Against-the-Free-College-Agenda.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/98938en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAmerican Enterprise Instituteen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/en
dc.subjectlow-income studentsen
dc.subjectfederal Pell Grantsen
dc.subjectcollege affordabilityen
dc.subjectstudent financial aiden
dc.subjectfree collegeen
dc.titleEvidence Against the Free-College Agenda: An Analysis of Prices, Financial Aid, and Affordability at Public Universitiesen
dc.typeReporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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