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Originally Posted by kane
I just did the same. I was a freshman in 1989. Total then was about $3,500 a year and that included room, board, books, fees, and tuition. Today it is about $20,000. So about a 6X increase.
During that same time, the minimum wage has increased by about 3X. The big one here is housing. The average cost of a home in Portland in 1989 was around $100,000 There was just a news story the other day that said the average cost of a home in Portland is now $425,000.
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that's a big difference between the two.
it appears the average cost of tuition for private schools has double in the last 30 years and the average cost of public college tuition has tripled.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/29/how-...8-to-2018.html