The cost of educating Latinos
by Felipe Diaz
The cost of attending college has rapidly increased over the past 30 years. Since 1982, tuition has increased by530 percent.
As an undergraduate student, I have seen tuition at my shamefully-expensive private school steadily increase over the last four years while my financial aid has dwindled. I depend on scholarships, financial aid and student loans to pay tuition, so the possibility of my interest rate doubling on July 1 is terrifying.
While both Democrats and Republicans have agreed that interest rates should not double to nearly 7 percent this year, the Senate is at a standoff on how to fund the $6 billion cost of a one-year freeze. Still, in acontroversial move on May 16, Senate Republicans voted overwhelmingly for two GOP-written budgets that
