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A Bubble Waiting To Burst: College Textbooks Are Ungodly Expensive & Increasingly Irrelevant
Since 1978, the cost of education books and supplies (mostly college textbooks) has increased by 812 percent, his chart shows. That’s much more than the very high inflation rate for medical services or new homes and way more than the 250 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index. It’s “unsustainable,” Perry writes.
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