State colleges raise tuition prices by smallest percentage in nearly 40 years. Still, they were raised. Again.

According to CNN Money, the tuition increase was 2.9% this year, as opposed to increases of 4.5%, 8.5%, 7.9%, and 7.2% the previous four years. By comparison, private colleges raised tuition rates by an average of 3.8% this year.

In case you're wondering, the median family income in the U.S. has increased by only 1.9% annually for the last decade.

All of this is just a polite reminder you'll be poverty stricken soon.