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New Course in College Costs

  • June 10, 2012
  • The Progressive Policy Institute

PPI’s work on the growing debt burden facing young college graduates was cited in the Wall Street Journal:

The average debt load of all new graduates rose 24%, adjusted for inflation, from 2000 through 2010, to $16,932, according to the Progressive Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank in Washington.

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