Trying to figure out college savings plans for 3 kids - what are general thoughts around state of college education in 15-20 years? More expensive, same, more funded education, focus on skills ...?

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Are you already fully funded on retirement? Do that first. Kids may end up not going to college or it may be free. Or they can take loans. You can’t take loans for retirement.

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Save for retirement first, then put what you can into 529s for the kids. It’s much more likely that you’ll need more than you save.

Or go vote for Bernie/Warren and pray for free college for all.

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Not sure how it’ll be anything but more expensive.

There are calculators online that can help plan.

$201,000 for 4 years of public school 16 years from now? Sounds awesome.

Put down what you can, but don’t feel like you need to fund it all. Kids can get scholarships/loans/jobs.

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