For generations, the answer to the question “Is college worth it?” felt like an automatic yes. College was the next step. It was the key to better jobs, higher pay, and a stable financial future.

For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college — or whether to go at all — has become a complex calculation of costs and benefits that often revolves around a single question: Is ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college — or whether to go at all — has become a complex calculation of costs and benefits that often revolves around a ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. If you were to judge by public-opinion polling, you might reasonably conclude that Americans have broadly ...