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Will President Obama’s Blueprint Cut College Costs?

New York Times "The Choice" Blog - Guest Post

January 30, 2012

The risk is that the proposals for increasing student aid financing may be little more than a shell game, where the federal government gives with one hand and takes back with the other. For example, President Obama's proposal for a one-year delay in the doubling of interest on the subsidized Stafford loan program will be coupled with increases in interest rates on the Perkins loan program.

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