How Are You Paying for College Tuition?

The Center for American Progress reports that with the surge in college tuition costs over the past three decades, many families are being priced out of the American higher education dream.

The inflation-adjusted income of the median American family has basically remained stagnant, according to this write-up on Huffington Post. Meanwhile  college costs have simultaneously surged to near unreachable heights, based on findings of the Center for American Progress report, "300 Million Engines of Growth."

According to the report, costs at private nonprofit four-year colleges have increased by more than 150 percent since 1982, but the real trouble is at four-year public schools, where inflation-adjusted costs have experienced a startling 250 percent jump.

You can read the rest of the story here, on Huffington Post, and read through the Center for American Progress report, uploaded here.

How have you afforded college for the kids? Did you have a big nest egg? Are you still paying off loans? Did you get creative? Tell us in the comments field below.