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With a Tax Deduction Gone, Is Home Equity a Smart Way to Pay for College?

Jen and Daniel Mouer with their 16-year-old twin daughters at home in Richmond, Va., Jan. 11, 2018. To help pay for the girls' college educations, the couple has been saving in a 529 account and had planned to use a home equity line of credit for school bills, but the government’s new tax law has taken a bit of wind out of their sails. (Khue Bui/The New York Times).