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Download full textMcPherson, Michael S.; Byce, Charles R. – 1986
This paper analyzes the merits of proposals to encourage saving for college by permitting families to use funds accumulated in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA's) to pay postsecondary education expenses. The paper argues that tax treatment of such expenditures might parallel that for expenditures of IRA's for retirement purposes--deferring tax…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Programs, Government Role, Higher Education
Ifill, Roberto M.; McPherson, Michael S. – Lumina Foundation for Education, 2004
Since the early 1980s, college tuitions have soared, and state and federal governments have sought new ways to help students and families meet the costs of attendance. Annual state and federal appropriations to traditional student aid programs have more than doubled in the past two decades. In addition, the federal government created the Hope…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Eligibility, Federal Government, Paying for College
