The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education recently conducted a study called Measuring Up 2008 that examined college affordability and completion rates, and the country came in with dangerously low scores across the board. The study reveals that college tuition and fees have increased 439 percent in the past 25 years and that student borrowing has more than doubled in the last 10 years.  All the numbers indicate that an undergraduate degree is moving further out of reach for low-income and middle class Americans. The major concern is that the United States may slowly be losing its ability to compete in a global workforce as higher degrees become harder to attain.

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