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1
See the Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm; Mark Kantrowitz, The Financial Value of a Higher
Education, Journal of Student Financial Aid, 37(1), 2007 http://www.nasfaa.org/research/Journal/subs/The_Financial_Value_of_a_
Higher_Education.aspx; The College Payoff http://cew.georgetown.edu/collegepayoff/; What’s It Worth http://cew.georgetown.
edu/whatsitworth/; Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements through 2018 http://cew.georgetown.edu/jobs2018/; Table 6
on page 106 of http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2012/01/art5full.pdf; Education Pays http://trends.collegeboard.org/educationpays;
and Cancer Mortality in the United States by Education Level and Race http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/doi/10.1093/jnci/
djm127.
2
Total Student Aid and Nonfederal Loans in 2013 Dollars, in Excel, http://trends.collegeboard.org/
3
Based on Summary of Enhancements to the 2014-2015 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) Oct 2013 http://www.
regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=ED-2013-ICCD-0061-0002. “Consistent with the Supreme Court decision on the Defense of
Marriage Act (DOMA), same-sex couples must report their marital status as married if they were legally married in a state or other
jurisdiction (foreign country) that permits same-sex marriage.” United States v. Windsor (2013, Docket No. 12-307) http://www.
supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-307_6j37.pdf.
4
34 CFR 668.37(a)(2)
5
Alabama, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, New Hampshire, South Dakota, and Tennessee
6
Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi,
Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West
Virginia, and Wisconsin.
7
See http://www.sss.gov/qa.htm#quest35.
8
20 USC 1091(d), as amended by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2012 (P.L. 112-74).
9
2014-15 Federal Student Aid Handbook, Volume 1, Chapter 6, page 1-67.
10
20 USC 1091(r) http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/1091#r.
11
See, for example, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/28/colleges-use-fafsa-information-reject-students-andpotentially-lower-financial-aid.
12
See page 64 of Completing the FAFSA 2013-14, http://studentaid.ed.gov/sites/default/files/2013-14-completing-fafsa.pdf.
13
DCL GEN-11-15 http://ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/GEN1115.html
14
See 34 CFR 668.55 and 75 FR 66832.