1. Policy Focus
Student Loans and College Affordability
RECIPES FOR RATIONAL GOVERNMENT FROM THE INDEPENDENT WOMEN’S FORUM
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Vicki Alger, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Women for School Choice Project Director, Independent Women’s Forum
What You Need to Know 1
Why You Should Care 2
More Information
Government Efforts
to Make College
More Affordable 2
Government Subsidies
Actually Contribute to
Higher College Costs 3
Better Incentives Improve
College Affordability 4
How Typical American
Families Pay for
College 5
What You Can Do 6

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High College Costs:
Parents are Tapped Out:
Taxpayers on the Hook:
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3. IWF Policy Focus, August 2012 3
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year ,
, in essence
Demand Transparency

5. IWF Policy Focus, August 2012 5
Adopt an Outcomes-Based Funding
System.
Require Competency-Based Programs.
Foster Meaningful Competition for Students.
Business Should Directly Finance Their
Future Employees.
How Typical American
Families Pay for College

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