• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “Its not about pay, its just about how more affordable things were for the pay you earned back then!”

    • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      College tuition has massively outpaced inflation, much less wage growth.

      The policies (chiefly the change that made student loans no longer dischargeable in bankruptcy) that rocketed college tuition up are a MUCH more significant factor in college affordability, that’s just a fact.

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        2 months ago

        When everything outpaces inflation, maybe we compute inflation wrong.