If anything, increases in financial aid in recent years have enabled colleges and universities blithely to raise their tuitions, confident that Federal loan subsidies would help cushion the increase. Federal student aid policies do not cause college price inflation, but there is little doubt that they help make it possible.
Bill Bennett discusses the impact of financial aid on college tuition increases.
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