The 5-percent non-solution

HERE'S A tantalizing but risky idea: To help more students pay for the soaring cost of college, Congress would push schools to dip deeper into their endowments, freeing up more money from bulging coffers - $34.6 billion at Harvard, $22.5 billion at Yale, $15.6 billion at the University of Texas. (Full article: 453 words)

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