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After younger boomers finished college, access to government student loans expanded, tuitions rose and loan balances soared.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The program allows businesses to receive tax credits on donations that go toward the private and religious school tuitions of mostly low-income students.

From Washington Times • Aug. 12, 2023

It’s one piece of the department’s effort to increase accountability among the institutions whose tuitions are paid by federal student loans.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2023

Visitors from abroad are similarly astonished to discover that American families regularly pay astronomical college tuitions out of their own pockets.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2022

It was well known that absent students were punished with higher tuitions the following term.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss