Federal Student Aid Helps Colleges, Not Students

George Leef

That is the finding of a recent study done by Robert Martin and Andrew Gillen for the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and I write about it in this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call. In my view, Martin and Gillen have torpedoed and sunk the badly damaged ship that was the “colleges can’t help their increasing costs so the government must subsidize students” argument..

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