What Do You Think About Higher Education Tax Breaks?
Higher education tax breaks are a good thing, right? Sounds good to me - promotes access to education, right? But are the tax breaks always on target? Stephen Burd doesn’t think so. Burd, a Senior Policy Analyst at Education Sector, says we should eliminate the American Opportunity Tax Credit in order to strengthen the Pell Grant program. In his report Moving on Up: How Tuition Tax Breaks Increasingly Favor the Upper-Middle Class, Burd states that between 1999 and 2001, over 80 percent of higher education benefits…
