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The US spends twice what we spent in 1970 on education per student, in constant dollars. I don't know how to make the schools better, but money sure didn't do
by laughing_man 1y ago
The US spends twice what we spent in 1970 on education per student, in constant dollars. I don't know how to make the schools better, but money sure didn't do it.
And we're going broke paying for health care. I don't know how much more we spend, but it's multiples.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoyou're a decade too early. Compare it to 1980 and you see how it flattens out very quickly. Compare it to 1990 and you see the cost per student has basically flatlined. Spending diverted from government funding of schools to student loans, so even that's misleading. >And we're going broke paying for health care. Signing a bill giving trillions to billionaires certainly does make it hard to fund healthcare. Especially when the wealth concentration these days has the top 10% making 50% of the money. I wonder how we solve that...
- laughing_man 1y agoA decade too early for what? Sure, it flattens out, but the fact remains we're spending a whole lot more money on schools than we did when the students were objectively learning more. And what bill was it that gave trillions to billionaires?