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Politics : The Trump Presidency

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To: TimF who wrote (65923)	4/10/2018 1:44:07 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) of 358096

My concern is that I think (no research yet that I've done) that there has been a significant shift in how education is funded: It shifted from more taxpayer funding to more tuition and fees. Much like the recent shift in employer funded healthcare now having much larger employee contributions. So if you look at education "expense" as the cost of tuition and fees at colleges and universities in the USA, you should not confuse that with the cost of a college or university education. It used to be that instate public colleges and universities were quite cheap, but over the last 30 years the fraction paid in tuition and fees has gone up steeply, but that does not mean the total cost has gone up anywhere near that. There must be data out there comparing the two. My concern is that the plots you posted I think are not being careful about that difference. You could do the same with employee cost of healthcare over 30 years. 30 years ago, many employer plans covered nearly 100%. So if you plot employee cost over those 30 years it will have shot up much more than actual healthcare costs have.

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