Don't be fooled by the dissembling nature of this article. It would be nice to think of this as just another data-fetish bauble, but this article is part of a

Don't be fooled by the dissembling nature of this article. It would be nice to think of this as just another data-fetish bauble, but this article is part of a complex multi-dimensional game of politics. Who stands to gain? What senators sit on the majority of the Joint Economic Committee and why would they be selflessly taking their own states down a peg? Woe is the drain... of their own making perhaps? Maybe there is some major upcoming decision, say, one by the Supreme Court, that will greatly effect how many, many billions of education dollars will be dispersed by the federal government and to what "accredited" educational institutions will be newly eligible for it?