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Letters: Reader figures Scalise 'assistance' at different rate: And what about TOPS?

Por: The Advocate Opinion September 17, 2022

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In his Sept. 5 letter to the editor, Mark Folse, a software analyst, would have everyone believe that received $34,000 in taxpayer assistance for his education at LSU.Folse in his analysis of the tuition of 1989 vs. 2022 made the mistake of mixing apples and oranges. While he rightly calculated the 1989 tuition dollars as being $3,438 in 2022, he erred in taking the difference from today’s tuition dollars. He should have converted the 2022... + full article



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