College students are skipping meals to pay for textbooks - Axios

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-09-05

Summary:

"Textbook prices have skyrocketed over the past few years, which has led 71% of students to ask their parents for money, 41% to skip meals and 31% to take fewer classes to afford their reading material, according to a new survey by Morning Consult for Cengage, an online textbook company...."

Link:

https://www.axios.com/college-textbooks-expensive-overpriced-students-poll-469a89fc-f80f-4595-98cb-2a33170ba235.html

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Date tagged:

09/05/2018, 12:47

Date published:

09/05/2018, 08:47