Schools recruit heavily for another reason: Because federal grants do not always cover tuition and expenses, students are often roped into private loans, another revenue stream in the booming for-profit education business.
And if that $100,000 subsidy does not repeat throughout the life of the loan, the school can always raise tuition to make up the difference.
Always tuition-intensive, higher education has become capital-intensive as well.
And, assuming your kids do go to private school, the Independent is simply less risky, especially if you need your money in a particular year; while stocks go up and down, tuition always goes up.
"Tuition is always sensitive but I think if we don't surprise people and it's modest, people understand," said Gould, who is former director of the state Department of Finance.
She came in at 35%. "Bernie always, always, always talks about tuition and young people," said Moumita Ahmed, a 25-year-old lead organizer for Millennials for Bernie Sanders, who was watching the speech with Files.
But as for who pays for tuition, that's always strictly between her and her clients".
"We tell them to always have proof that their tuition bills are paid and to carry a transcript and a school calendar when they travel," she said.
They are parents who have always paid their private school tuition bills on time, and now they have seen their stocks tumble in value, their year-end bonuses evaporate and their clients disappear.
Students still pay tuition as they always have, and the Republican and Democratic bills have descended into committee, a legislative morass from which they may never emerge.
Laws also tells us that he and Nick Clegg were always dubious about the pledge on tuition fees.
