Tuition up, support down: Has college finally broken the bank?

By Kirk Pinho. Everyone knows college has become more expensive. But here's one more jaw-dropping statistic: An MET contract now costs a third more than the average Michigan family makes in a year.
And that's just for one child.
In 1995, a four-year MET cost $19,908, 54 percent of the median household income of $36,426. By 2012, the last year for which median family house income data is available, it cost $66,496, about one third more than the $50,015 the average family made that year. More...