The College Board offered a classic mix of good news and bad news in its latest look at trends in tuition and student aid released Tuesday. The College Board-a nonprofit association of more than 5,400 schools, colleges, universities and education organizations-publishes the college costs and student financial assistance reports annually as planning tools for parents and students. According to the organization, tuition is up 6 and a half percent this year. The average cost at public 4-year colleges is now over 7-thousand dollars. The percentage increase for two-year colleges was higher at 7.3 percent, but Baum cautioned that California, which has 17 percent of all community college students in the U.S., had the highest-percentage increase, which bumped the nationwide average. Tuition and fee increases in Virginia, which the College Board groups with nine other states as the South region, were close to the national averages.
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Biden announced new protections for retirement savings accounts The Obama administration on Friday proposed new regulations aimed at protecting workers' retirement savings from unethical financial advisers. The safeguards would protect workers from conflicts of interest on the part of advisers who manage ...
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<div id="subtitle">Teens say college is the top reason for saving money</div><div><p>Stroll through the mall on a weekend and you get the impression teens save money to buy clothes or iPods and video game systems, but a new survey shows their priority is ...
