Claim: "In 1978, a student who worked a minimum-wage summer job could afford to pay a year's full tuition at the 4-year public university of their choice."
Fact-check: Could a minimum-wage earner in 1978 earn enough in a summer to pay a full year's tuition?
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2014-08-08T00:00:00