User:Aanyajhaveri/For-profit higher education in the United States

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According to the U.S. Department of education the cost of higher education, namely 4- year bachelors degrees, has "more than doubled" in the last 30 years even when accounting for inflation. The increased cost of tuition for higher education leads to multiple detrimental effects both socially and economically within the U.S. including "obstruct[ing] access to college education, harm[ing] individual student health, and exaserbat[ing] an already looming debt crisis"