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Higher-Education Tax Credits: Middle-Class Entitlement?

April 01, 2003

Bridget Terry Long of the Harvard Graduate School of Education argues that the program does not increase access to college for the poor, but rather serves as tax relief for the middle class.

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Higher-Education Tax Credits

Tuesday, March 04, 2003 | 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

In 1997, the federal government dramatically changed the way it provides financial assistance to college students. With the creation of Hope and the Lifetime Learning Tax Credits, the government began awarding annually an estimated $9.7 billion in benefits to 13.1 million students. Included in the new provisions were many students...

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Footing the Tuition Bill

Frederick M. Hess

Monday, September 25, 2006 | 9:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Students and families can finance higher education in three ways: grants, government-backed loans, or private loans. Contemporary research and debate typically focus on grants and federally supported loans. Meanwhile, despite its explosive growth, the private loan market remains minimally researched and poorly understood. This made sense a decade ago, when...

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Footing the Tuition Bill

Frederick M. Hess | AEI Press

May 11, 2007

This book explores the purposes of federal student loans, how well traditional arrangements work, and how innovations might offer guidance for rethinking the design of financial aid.

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The Future of American Education

AEI | AEI Online

December 11, 2007