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Schools hold bake sales to buy supplies https://www.epi.org/publication/books_wheremoneygone/ https://www.epi.org/publication/books_wheremoneygone/: "With appr
by jseliger 6y ago
Schools hold bake sales to buy supplies
https://www.epi.org/publication/books_wheremoneygone/ https://www.epi.org/publication/books_wheremoneygone/: "With appropriate inflation adjustment, it appears that total real education spending per pupil increased by 61% from 1967 to 1991." And that's from 1995. Real expenditures have grown enormously in the last four decades, and the results are to be left as an exercise to the reader.
- groby_b 6y agoSpending since then has only increased ~20%, though. [1] That is not adjusted for inflation, which since 1996 was an impressive 67.58%. [1] https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/education_spending https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/education_spending
- iso1631 6y agoAS a portion of GDP, US K-12 education spending 2000: 3.7% 2005: 3.8% 2009: 4.0% 2012: 3.6% 2015: 3.5% https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/education-spending.htm https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/education-spending.htm France and UK spend more in the G7, Canada, Germany, Italy and Japan spend less. US defense spending 2000: 3.0% 2005: 3.9% 2009: 4.6% 2012: 4.2% 2015: 3.3% https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm I was surprised to be honest. US spending on defense is way down on most of the 70s and 80s (6%ish, lowest was 78 with 4.9%)