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text: Back to School (Forbes.com) Forbes.com - Over the past three decades the Federal Government has poured three-quarters of a trillion dollars into financial aid for college students. Back in 1971, the annual total for grants, loans, tax breaks and other aid was the equivalent, in today's dollars, of  #36;18 billion. It's now running at a  #36;65-billion-a-year clip.