New York–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2012. America’s future middle class is in peril, with state investment in public higher education plummeting over the past two decades leaving students and their families to pick up the slack. A just released report by public policy center Demos provides a new analysis of the Grapevine data on state funding trends for public higher education from 1990 onwards and details how a pattern of disinvestment is leading to stagnant graduation rates and skyrocketing levels of student debt.
