The cost for low income families of sending a child to a four year public institution in the United States has risen from 13% of family income in 1980 - this is the one year cost, average cost for low income families of sending a child to a four year public institution has risen from 13% of family income in 1980 to more than 25% today.
Shopping outlets around the country are built because someone had the land and someone else (a financial institution) was willing to provide low cost financing rather than to fill the shopping needs of the local consumers.
It's not enough to build low-cost housing, says Bruce Katz, founder of the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, and there is no massive investment coming from the federal government.