Government Spending on Colleges in the US Is Higher than in the Countries with "Free" College
04/25/2019Ryan McMaken
Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have both come out in favor in "free" public colleges and universities. The scheme could be funded, as CNN describes it, by "drastic increase in federal spending on higher education."
Much of the rhetoric around swirling around this issue relies on the idea that government spending on higher education in the United States is significantly lower than most other wealthy countries.
The narrative goes like this: "everyone knows that Americans are incredibly stingy when it comes to spending on government services. 'Public spending' on higher education is much lower here than in Europe and Japan, and because of this, people must spend much more on higher education."
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