At Congressional Hearing, Student Aid Gets Blame for Rising Tuition

If the U.S. Congress wants to curb the growth in college prices, it should put the brakes on the financing of federal student aid, a scholar from a conservative think tank told lawmakers last week.

Speaking at a hearing of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, Richard K. Vedder, an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor of economics at Ohio University at Athens, charged that by continually increasing the budgets of federal

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