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Senate hears ideas on keeping down college costs

WASHINGTON (MCT) — Higher education experts on Thursday gave a Senate committee their suggestions for improving college affordability in the hopes those ideas could be adopted on a national level.

During a Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing, the panel discussed the efforts they had made in their respective institutions that, they said, have bucked the national trend of ever-growing financial barriers to college, especially for low-income families.

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