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Posted inHigher Education, News

Trying to figure out what taxpayers are getting for college financial aid

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus July 8, 2015April 8, 2021

Taxpayers spend $140 billion a year on grants and loans for college students. Our friends at Decode DC ask: Is the investment paying off? This story also appeared in Decode DC The answer is that it’s impossible to tell, thanks to limits on accountability, many of them embedded into law and fiercely defended by the […]

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