College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.

THIS WAS FROM 2008.....

Published in The New York Times, by Tamar Lewin
"...Among the poorest families - those with incomes in the lowest 20 percent- the net cost of a year at a public university was 55 percent of the median income, up from 39 percent in 1999- 2000. At community colleges, long seen as a saftey net, that cose was 49 percent of the poorest families' median income last year, up from 40 % in 1999-2000."

Read the full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/education/03college.html?_r=