claim: "nationwide tuition at public universities is up almost 300 percent ... in the last 20 years."
author: joe biden
evidence_1: sep 20, 2017 ... but data from the past 20 years show that the average cost of tuition and ... 20  years of tuition changes, as reported to u.s. news by the 300 ... out-of-state  tuition and fees at public national universities have risen 200 percent.
evidence_2: "nationwide tuition at public universities is up almost 300 percent ... in the last 20  years." ... "we have created more jobs in this last year than the bush  administration (did) in eight years." ... politifact national on monday, august 20th,  2007.
evidence_3: aug 15, 2016 ... years of cuts in state funding for public colleges and universities ... over the last  20 years, the price of attending a four-year public ... state spending on higher  education nationwide is down an average of $1,598 per student, or 18 percent.  .... of the top 1 percent of families have grown by almost 170 percent.
evidence_4: jun 16, 2015 ... it's not just the tuition costs at elite universities like harvard that are ... at public,  four-year schools, tuition and fees cost about $9,139 this year. ... [college tuition]  has been rising almost six percent above the rate of inflation," said ..... much  stable for the past 15 to 20 years, adjusted for inflation" said franke, ...
evidence_5: aug 23, 2017 ... state cuts have driven up tuition and reduced quality ... over the last 20 years,  the price of attending a four-year public college or ... state spending on higher  education nationwide fell $1,448 per student, or 16 percent, after .... with a drop in  campus diversity of almost 6 percent," new york university ...