The American Prospect: The Student Loan Report the Trump Administration Didn’t Want Published

Here. Here’s an excerpt from the story (not the report itself) about an omitted section:

The college pricing section focuses on the role universities themselves play in the student loan crisis. The sticker price for college tuition has risen at more than double the rate of inflation since the year 2000. Most students don’t pay these rates, but what they actually pay is determined by third-party enrollment management companies, usually one of two dominant firms. These contractors for the colleges take in a student’s personal data—the median income in their ZIP code, or how often they’ve visited the college’s website—and use that to calculate the maximum tuition a student and family are likely to pay.

Schools then tailor their financial aid packages accordingly, with the goal of extracting as much cash from families as possible, forcing many to seek additional student loan support. Paradoxically, children of affluent families get higher discounts, because universities want to attract them for the purposes of asking the family for high-level donations. But for everyone else, the goal is to “systematically raise prices,” the report notes.

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