5 Fact-checks About The High Cost Of College Tuition

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Mon, 09/01/2014 - 1:00pm

As students head back to college this month, many will find it a tough call about what’s more stressful -- their homework, or their looming student debt. In recent months, PolitiFact has done a number of fact-checks about tuition and student debt. Here are five of them: • "In 1978, a student who worked a minimum-wage summer job could afford to pay a year's full tuition at the 4-year public university of their choice." Mostly True.

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