"High-income parents have resources they can use for this purpose, while low-income parents have had to cut back," said Sabino Kornrich, professor of sociology at Emory University who co-authored the report. “We have observed that since the recession, this inequality in spending has become even more pronounced.” Colleges and universities have their own financial concerns. Public universities, for example, faced with a decline in state funding, have chosen to make up for it not only by increasing tuition fees, but by recruiting better-paid foreign students. They, along with private, nonprofit colleges and universities, are giving wealthier applicants billions of dollars in financial aid that once went to low-income ones, the U.S. Department of Education has found. Although private colleges and universities often say they offer large sums of money in financial aid, they don't specify who receives it, and the percentage of students receiving aid for reasons other than need has doubled over the past 20 years, the department