College has gotten incredibly expensive. And some colleges are offering students a new way to pay. It's not a scholarship. It's not quite a loan....
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A new way to pay for college (Update)
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College has gotten incredibly expensive. And some colleges are offering students a new way to pay. It’s not a scholarship. It’s not quite a loan. It’s more like the students are selling stock in themselves. We check in on how income share agreements at one school have been working. | Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.
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