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Over the past 20 years tuition has dramatically risen at Universities all over the state of Utah. Students are going in to deeper debt while degrees are becoming seemingly less valuable.  Uthighereducation.blogspot.com covers why this seems to be happening, what percentage of student's tuition is paid for by the government, what laws are in place for higher education, and to what extent has tuition risen vs how much the minimum wage has risen.

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Zachary Wilson is a student at Utah State University, where he is earning a degree in journalism and communication. He has been student at the university for 3 years, and has changed his area of study from journalism to business, and back to journalism. Wilson has found that learning is the most important thing to him as well as informing others and helping them learn, too. Wilson became interested in reporting on the value of education when he noticed that there had been some jumps in the pricing of tuition over the past few decades.