A new study by the nonprofit American Institutes for Research set out to tally the costs associated with freshman students who don’t return to the college where they initially enrolled. It found that taxpayers foot a pretty ste…
Students who drop out of school before reaching their sophomore year cost taxpayers billions of dollars, according to new research.
Taxpayers spent more than $9 billion over five years subsidizing students who didn’t make it to the second year of four-year degree courses, according to new research from The American Institute for Research (AIR).
“Every spring, hundreds of thousands…
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College Dropouts Cost Taxpayers Billions originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:56:00.
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