Straddling Both Sides of the Political Aisle
I suppose one of the perks of being a non-partisan think-tank is that regardless of which side of a political dispute we wind up on, we are sure to fine at least one person who likes what we say. The...
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The Decline in State Appropriations Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
A year ago, Jonathan Robe and I released a little notice paper with the straightforward title of Stop Misusing Higher Education-Specific Price Indices, with the goal of helping others avoid mistakes in...
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Chart of the Week: Net Tuition Revenues and Educational Appropriations
About a year ago, one of our “charts of the week” focused upon the relationship between higher education appropriations and net tuition revenue at public institutions at the state level for the period...
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Cheap Stafford Loans: a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Political efforts to keep Stafford Loans at the 3.4% interest rate rather than rise to 6.8% is a Faustian Bargain. Here are five things wrong with keeping the interest rate low: One, the low rate...
View ArticleThe Stafford Loans Mess
I’ve been more than a little baffled with all of the political blathering the last couple of weeks about the need to avoid the “crisis” of a doubling (from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent) of the interest...
View ArticleTrillion-Dollar Misunderstanding: The Seven Sins of Federal Student Loans
Charles Miller, chair of the Spellings Commission, reminded me the other day that that panel in its report referred to the federal financial aid system as “dysfunctional.” I think I (as a member of the...
View ArticleA Trillion Dollars of Student Loans: A Crisis Created in Washington
A week or so ago Richard Vedder delivered an address to Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center in Washington, DC. The topic was the large outstanding student loan balance and the role federal policy has...
View ArticleThe Cost of Higher Access: Harry Stille’s Data
There are two persons of radically different political perspectives whose single-minded devotion to gathering and disseminating data on higher education set them apart from the rest of us: Tom...
View ArticleNew CCAP Study on the Harmful Effects of Federal Student Aid
With Dollars, Sense, and Nonsense: The Harmful Effects of Federal Student Aid, CCAP provides an in-depth analysis of structural issues within higher education, the incentives produced by the federal...
View ArticleRichard Vedder and Alan Krueger Debate Minimum Wage
Dr. Richard Vedder and Dr. Alan Krueger of Princeton University’s and Former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman weigh in on the minimum wage debate on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” Vedder claims “there...
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