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Education is incredibly expensive. Tuition continues to increase every year by a shocking amount. Public records from the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics show that the average cost of attending a 4-year university in 1980 was $8,756 per year in inflation-adjusted 2010 dollars. The average cost in 2010 of attending a 4-year university was $21,657 in 2010 dollars. 2-year colleges and technical institutes had similar increases in tuition... College students are saddled with huge student loans when they graduate. In 2012, the average student graduated with $27,253 in student loans and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released figures showing that 11 percent of all student loans were delinquent... Public colleges and universities are one of the largest expenditures on state budgets. Many states were forced to cut higher education budgets following the economic downturn that resulted from the financial crisis in 2008. One way to help lower the..