{"id":12370,"date":"2015-04-10T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12370"},"modified":"2015-04-10T08:22:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T12:22:17","slug":"the-secret-university-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-secret-university-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret University Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/041015_1219_TheSecretUn1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tuition costs are high and rising. Yet few people pay attention to the cost of university room and board which is often rising even faster writes Jill Barshay:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At one university students pay what averages out to $24 a day for food \u2013 twice what the average American spends on food every day.<\/li>\n<li>The rent comes out to $786 for a shared room \u2013 the same as the median monthly rent for an entire house in the US.<\/li>\n<li>These costs are rising. Universities have raised prices for room and board at a rate 6-9% a year \u2013 <em>after adjusting for inflation<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The universities have a bit of a monopoly on their customers as they often require that students remain in campus housing and have a campus meal plan.<\/li>\n<li>One reason for the increase in price is the increase in quality \u2013 students can now get gourmet food at their dining halls.<\/li>\n<li>Universities will also go for organic, locally sourced food which is more expensive.<\/li>\n<li>Students now expect dining halls to be open late at night during exam times.<\/li>\n<li>Many university buildings are old need to be refurbished.<\/li>\n<li>Yet after taking all this into account university revenues are higher than their costs for providing food and accommodation.<\/li>\n<li>Part of the drive to increase these prices is because such increases receive less scrutiny by prospective students and regulators than normal tuition increases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read how one university was able to keep room and board costs unchanged for three years, the most expensive schools for room and board in America, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/think-tuition-is-rising-fast-try-room-and-board\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/think-tuition-is-rising-fast-try-room-and-board\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Vox<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuition costs are high and rising. Yet few people pay attention to the cost of university room and board which is often rising even faster writes Jill Barshay: At one university students pay what averages out to $24 a day for food \u2013 twice what the average American spends on food every day. The rent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/041015_1219_TheSecretUn1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12373,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12370\/revisions\/12373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}