UC fees have more than tripled in the past decade. For the first time this fall, the university will take in more from tuition than from contributions from the state. The state has cut more than a billion dollars from the UC since 2008 alone… The UC’s fiscal woes are throwing middle-class families a sucker punch, a number of regents said. "We’ve done a lot for low-income families, but we have not substantively addressed – except rhetorically – what we’re doing for the middle class," Newsom told the regents. The proportion of UC students from middle-income families is declining, while the percent from low- and high-income families has risen, according to the UC Annual Accountability Report. One reason for the decrease may be that middle-class families no longer consider the UC affordable, the report said.

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by Andra Lim, The Daily Bruin.

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