Dashed Hopes for Increasing Access to Higher Education

Experience of California students shows why federal tax breaks may not achieve their goal

Hanging out with friends at bustling Sproul Plaza on the University of California campus here, Langston Walker nods his head in recognition when he hears the names of two new federal tax credits designed to help students pay for college.

He knows about them, and he knows just as surely that they aren't of any help to him.

Like two-thirds of his classmates in this university system,

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