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How to pay for college with less stress

Save a quarter, pay a quarter from current income and borrow the rest, says financial adviser.

Published Sun, Oct 2, 2016 · 09:50 PM

    IN this US quadrennial season of financial hope, we might wish that the major presidential candidates would reckon with one of the large and looming numbers in our lives.

    Maybe this particular pair of multimillionaires hears the parents and grandparents who are confounded by college price tags that seem to start at six figures.

    But the candidates' plans don't hold out much cause for hope. Hillary Clinton wants to make in-state tuition for four-year state universities free for families with less than US$125,000 in income, but her plan would require the financial help of states that may not want to chip in.

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