Lakeshore Technical College combats skyrocketing textbook costs - Paul Carlsen, USA TODAY NETWORK

According to a January 2018 piece by Kathy Kristof for CBS Moneywatch, the average cost of college textbooks has risen four times faster than the rate of inflation over the past 10 years. To put this into perspective, if you paid $100 for a textbook in 2008, that same textbook would cost you more than $180 today. If the typical full-time student takes eight courses a year, that’s an additional $640 in annual college expenses, which bring no additional educational value. That is crazy. It is estimated 65 percent of students nationwide did not buy textbooks at some point in college because they couldn’t afford them. While the national statistics are staggering, closer to home, we are even more concerned. https://www.htrnews.com/story/opinion/2018/06/22/lakeshore-technical-college-manitowoc-wisconsin-combats-skyrocketing-textbook-costs-paul-carlsen/724900002/