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On the recordSeptember 18, 2013
A student who goes to a public university today, adjusted for inflation, will pay about 300 percent of what her father would have paid a generation ago.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren points out the drastic increase in public university costs over generations.

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