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Re:The K-shaped recovery by suchire on Friday September 25, 2020 @01:41PM (#24592195)
There were many influential policy decisions at the Federal level that pushed for defunding public programs, such as cutting federal grants/loan forgiveness for teacher training
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Re:The K-shaped recovery by bhupy on Friday September 25, 2020 @01:46PM (#24592265)
Like what, specifically?

To use one of the cited programs, the US school system, as an example: per-pupil inflation-adjusted spending on schools is the highest it's ever been, and has been continuously increasing: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_236.55.a...

Also, Federal spending only covers about 8% of public school budgets: https://theconversation.com/federal-spending-covers-only-8-o...

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Re:The K-shaped recovery by jakearmitage on Friday September 25, 2020 @01:51PM (#24592327)
Can you cite any?
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