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Four Years of Wages Versus Four Years of Debt, the Apprenticeship Math One teen spends four years earning a paycheck and a credential, another spends them borrowing. A labelled hypothetical shows the math and where a degree wins. Where Tuition Dollars Go, From Administrators to the Lazy River Tuition is billed as the price of teaching, but the money also pays for administrators, amenities and bond debt. Here is the arithmetic of where it lands. Grad PLUS Was a Blank Check for Graduate School, and Here Is the Proof Grad PLUS let Washington lend up to the full cost of attendance with no cap, so programs had little reason to hold prices down. The record, and the 2025 end. Biden v. Nebraska and the Limits of a Secretary's Power to Cancel Debt Biden v. Nebraska held a 2003 emergency law did not let the Education Secretary cancel hundreds of billions in student loans, because Congress holds the purse.