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Romney’s Attack on Obama’s College Affordability Record
Ben Adler on May 8, 2012 – 4:56 PM ET
Over the weekend Mitt Romney’s campaign issued press releases, pegged to visits to key swing states, listing the purported failures Obama’s first term. Headlines such as “FOUR YEARS OF BROKEN PROMISES FOR VIRGINIA” and “AMERICAN FAMILIES ARE STRUGGLING IN THE OBAMA ECONOMY” lead to lists of facts about the hardships the country faces, from large numbers of home foreclosures to high gas prices.
One statistic in particular stands out, especially in light of Romney’s effort to woo young voters: “Since President Obama Took Office, The Average Cost Of College Has Increased By 25% At Four-Year Public Schools Across The Country.” This fact, while technically true, is wildly misleading. It doesn’t adjust for inflation. Adjusted for inflation the percentage increase is 21.7 percent. That’s much too high, but is it Obama’s fault?
The president does not control tuition at state institutions. But he has attempted to mitigate rising tuitions through financial aid to needy students. Obama doubled funding for Pell Grants, created a tuition tax credit worth up to $10,000 over four years and capped student loan payments.
The result is that the actual price that students pay for college has barely risen at all. The College Board crunched the numbers and found, “Between 2006-07 and 2011-12, average published tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities increased by about $1,800 in 2011 dollars, an annual rate of growth of 5.1% beyond inflation. The average net tuition and fees in-state students pay after taking grant aid from all sources and federal education tax credits and deductions into consideration increased by about $170 in 2011 dollars, an annual rate of growth of 1.4% beyond inflation.” So this supposed 25 percent increase is really just an increase of $170. That pretty much demolishes Romney’s point.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/167773/romneys-attack-obamas-college-affordability-record
I noticed that too, and I am surprised by it. How much could they have paid her for that display? Mitt Wall St.Romney is the Liar of the Year. I can’t even stand to hear his voice! You do know his agenda is to make this a “right-to-work-for-less” nation, right?
LOOK AT THIS PATHETIC CLOWNS
What an asswipe trying to take credit for the auto bailout, once again. A pathological LIAR
Hi Jueseppi; she was a straight up coonin’ plant!
That fool was literally a PLANT. The white dude was a palm tree with tall leaves, and she was a short potted PLANT waving her black arm in the air screaming treason. What a shameful disgrace Mitt Romney and his camp buying a house negro to call on treason for our FIRST BLACK POTUS. But that pscyhopath has no shame.