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Obama warns college officials

He threatens their federal aid if tuitions go up

Associated Press

  January 28, 2012

President Obama fired a warning at the nation’s colleges and universities yesterday, threatening to strip their federal aid if they “jack up tuition’’ every year and to give the money instead to schools showing restraint and value.

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