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College enrollment of middle income students is no longer declining, according to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Numbers of middle-income college students fell between 1967 and 1976, the report states, but since then reversed direction...
...Census Bureau report caused much Congressional concern over the access of middle-income groups to higher education. Increasing college costs seems to be "squeezing out" these groups, since they could neither afford tuition raises, nor qualify for scholarships...
...middle-income group is in fact sending more children to college," Larry E. Suter, U.S. Census Bureau reporter, said yesterday. "This may affect the Congressional debate," Suter added...
...Hoily, research assistant to Moynihan, yesterday criticized the Census Bureau's report, calling its figures "misleading." "We have figures that show the percentage of middle-income students enrolled in college has declined--just not as much as people thought," Holly said...
...yesterday, Skee Smith, public affairs representative for the Commission on Education, also criticized the Census Bureau's report. Smith said that Ernst Boyer, the Commissioner for Education, thinks "the figures aren't representative of pressure on middle-income groups," but that families "may be sacrificing more," or limiting their choices for a college...