Update #2: Getting a feel for things

Update​ ​us​ ​where​ ​you​ ​stand​ ​on​ ​your​ ​topic​ ​idea​. Has it changed since Blog #1? Have you refined it somewhat already? For some of you, your topics may have changed completely from the first time you wrote. Talk about why you changed the topic and why the new topic suits you better.

Since my last post I have spent hours checking the internet for scholarly articles on rising tuition costs. It is almost as if no one wants to say that it really is not too bad. The message seems to be hidden behind big words such as opportunity cost and inflation and a lot of other economic terms that don't simplify it. In the past in an economics class I did research on the same topic, but this time around I want to be able to tell it simple, so that way the typical person can understand without needing an economic background. Some of the articles found online compare the rise of tuition prices relative to the rise of inflation each year and point out that it is significantly rising faster than inflation. Being that this is a very money-related topic there will be some challenges trying to make it simple but rest assured, through this blog you will become more than educated on the topic! A common google search of tuition rising rather than an article based search seems to show that the blame is not on tuition , but on slowing wages and extra fees of college rising rather than the tuition itself. Its almost as if someone is trying to hide the fact that tuition is rising as if it were not. One article even describes tuition as a frozen rate which as we may all know is clearly not true. The best keywords to search that revealed unbiased results were:  Real tuition price and real cost of tuition... although the unbiased results required some basic knowledge of economics. Alot of the research done seem to analyze tuition over time in comparison to wages rather than a snapshot per year basis. The college board has an excellent table that illustrates it. Which can be found here: https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/tuition-and-fees-and-room-and-board-over-time-1976-77_2016-17-selected-years.  A popular book on the subject seems to have be released in 2002, when tuition had first began to rise, and is still an important and widely referenced book on the topic. If interested in purchasing it , here is a link to it on amazon https://www.amazon.com/Tuition-Rising-College-Costs-preface/dp/0674009886/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1507051937&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=tuition+prices+rising. This search has led me to want to show that tuition is no really expensive and is worth it now more than ever. I want to be able to reference some of the books I want to provoke emotion, so I am going to write against everyones ideas and beliefs in an effort to shed more light on the topic itself. Especially with something like tuition which will affect the majority of people stepping up into  society. This controversial topic is going to be interesting to research and provoke, stay tuned!

Some great sources are : https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=LFLtjqvqHFEC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=tuition+rising&ots=89adMHZIT1&sig=8_JVvNFTnvJBGyTOgyL2eaX11qY#v=onepage&q=tuition%20rising&f=false

http://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh?docid=23044624-201312-201312260038-201312260038-1-11

http://www.nber.org/papers/w5164

http://www.educationexchangeltd.org/documents/Is%20College%20Tuition%20Really%20Too%20High_%20NYT.pdf