How Does Inflation Affect College Costs?

Back in the seventies, before the middle income assistance, a middle income student assistance act, was passed, college costs were actually decreasing. And then college costs have now sky rocketed. They have kind of blown through the roof, a hundred forty two % and inflation adjusted dollars. So let's take an account minimum wage. How much of a minimum wage job would you have to work back in the Seventies to pay for college? Verse is where we are now.