The reason is simple, things aren't cheap. Jonathan Orszag with Upromise found that “working students can be classified into two groups: those who identify primarily as students but who work to pay the bills, and those who are primarily workers who also take some college classes” (Orszag ). Martin Kramer says: “College costs, especially tuition costs, have risen much faster than real wages in the kind of jobs students can get, so it takes more hours of work to cover even a steady percentage of costs (Kramer ). Jonathan Orszag agrees that “evidence shows that, in response to the financial burden of college tuition, students work harder while in college” (Orszag). In College Costs: Frequently Asked Questions, it states: “Public two-year college for in-state students costs $3,347, Public four-year college for in-state students costs $9,139, Public four-year college for out-of-state students costs $22,958, and four-year private college costs $31,231. " Kramer states that “humanitarian offices often have fewer grants to make than rising costs, so humanitarian offices expect students to cover a larger percentage of their budgets through earnings and loans to meet “self-help” expectations. . . Students face the self-help dilemma by working more because they want to borrow less to costs that the Office of Student Aid recognizes as essential” (Kramer). “In 2000, nearly 830,000 full-time college students worked full-time” (Orszag). because they need to work despite the difficulties. Jenna Johnson, journalist for the Washington Post, documents the story of Tiffany Wilt, “she is a nineteen-year-old high school graduate and a sophomore in the college honors program..