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Fewer poor students are being enrolled in state universities. Here's why

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imageHow are funding policies deciding who gets to go to college?Young Money, CC BY-SA

States have traditionally provided funding for public colleges and universities based on a combination of the number of students enrolled and how much money they were allocated previously.

But, in the face of increasingly tight budgets and pressures to demonstrate...

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