I sure hope the middle class is enjoying those tax cuts they didn't really get. tution rises across the board, again. At private schools average tution rose "5.9 percent [. . .] to $21,235." At public schools tution "rose 7.1 percent to $5,491," down from a 10.5 percent increase last year.
While tution increases at private colleges might not have a lot to do with Bush's tax give aways to the super wealthy, the increases we've seen over the past four years at public school tution has a lot to do with Bush's economic and tax policies. As states lose more and more federal aid, as more and more good paying manufacturing and other jobs are outsourced, and as more and more states are ruled by the GOP state university trustees and presidents are faced with increasing shortfalls in state contributions to support higher education. The result is increases in tution, fees, and other costs passed on to students. So much for Bush being "the education president." All of this is striking given Bush's dislike of "elite" private universities. You'd think he'd want to fund the public ones, but his masters on Wall Street are calling a different tune, which is driving the U.S. to win the race to the bottom.
