A Report Prepared By Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Democratic Staff And Senate Democratic Policy Committee, June 28, 2006

The College Cost Crunch: A State-by-State Analysis of Rising Tuition and Student Debt
70 Pages; PDF.

Rising tuition and student loan debt is a national problem. No state has escaped the college cost crunch. But individual states have been affected to different degrees. This report provides information on the college affordability problem in each state as well as how students and their families in each state would benefit from Democratic proposals. The following tables and individualized state reports provide information for each state
on:

• The rising cost of college;
• The erosion of the value of the Pell Grant;
• The amount of student loan debt incurred by college graduates;
• The amount of family income needed to pay for college;
• The amount of savings if student loan interest rates were cut in half;
• The reduction in monthly costs if student loan payments were capped at 15
percent of a borrower’s discretionary income;
• The increase in the average Pell Grant award and the number of students
eligible
if the maximum Pell Grant were increased to $5,100; and
• The number of students and families who are likely to benefit from
re-instituting the college tuition tax deduction, which expired at the end of 2005.

Thanks to ResourceShelf Contributor Stuart Basefsky for the link and annotation.

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