Inflation Nation: College Textbook Prices Soar 1000% Since 1977

Wondering why the drop-out rate from college is so high? One reason could be that a stunning 65% of students avoided buying textbooks due to the cost. As NBCNews reports,textbook prices have risen over three times the rate of inflation from January 1977 to June 2015, a 1,041 percent increase – dwarfing the government’s official CPI data. Just as government-subsidized healthcare has ‘enabled’ dramatic rises in the costs of drugs so government-subsidized education has sparked hyperinflation-esque pricing in college textbooks

As NBCNews reports, students hitting the college bookstore this fall will get a stark lesson in economics before they’ve cracked open their first chapter. Textbook prices are soaring. Some experts say it’s because they’re sold like drugs.

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INFLATION NATION: COLLEGE TEXTBOOK PRICES SOAR 1000% SINCE 1977

Wondering why the drop-out rate from college is so high? One reason could be that a stunning 65% of students avoided buying textbooks due to the cost. As NBCNews reports, textbook prices have risen over three times the rate of inflation from January 1977 to June 2015, a 1,041 percent increase – dwarfing the government’s official CPI data. Just as government-subsidized healthcare has ‘enabled’ dramatic rises in the costs of drugs so government-subsidized education has sparked hyperinflation-esque pricing in college textbooks

http://www.infowars.com/inflation-nation-college-textbook-prices-soar-1000-since-1977/