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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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