{"id":292396,"date":"2026-04-20T23:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=292396"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:37:14","slug":"whats-college-cost-good-luck-figuring-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=292396","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s College Cost? Good Luck Figuring It Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colleges could standardize financial aid information to make it easier to compare. But they don&#8217;t. Here&#8217;s why that&#8217;s a problem&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2026\/04\/20\/whats_college_cost_good_luck_figuring_it_out_697553.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: Real Clear Politics<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleges could standardize financial aid information to make it easier to compare. But they don&#8217;t. Here&#8217;s why that&#8217;s a problem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":292397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17867],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/292397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292396"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=292396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}