Students in the near future will face financial hurdles that may also effect the housing market and economy.  Cartoon by Mike Peters, the Cartoonist Group

Shocker: Tuition has gone through the roof in the past decade. But so has financial aid.

(source: NPR)

Financial aid by source: Grants — scholarships and other money that doesn’t have to be paid back — have risen by more than 50 percent, to nearly $7,000 per student per year.

(source: NPR)