As the elections pick up steam across the country, the phrase “free college” is making headlines. College tuition increased at 260 percent the rate of inflation since 1980, but what is more staggering is that textbook costs increased by 812 percent during the same period. At Occidental College, the $250 required textbook in one of my political science courses prompted my classmates to spend hours of their week printing out sections of the text from the few who had it.
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