Tag: Budget cuts
Federal spending covers only 8% of public school budgets
David S. Knight, University of Washington
CC BY-SAState and local tax dollars cover the bulk of U.S. public school funding.
The federal government spends just under...
In divided Alaska, the choice is between paying for government or...
Paola Banchero, University of Alaska Anchorage
Alaskans will soon confront the dramatic effects of Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s vetoes of US$444 million from the state...
The GOP’s poor arguments for doubling down on SNAP’s work requirements
Patricia Smith, University of Michigan
Republicans aim to tighten the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s work requirements as part of the farm bill Congress is debating.
These...
California’s higher education: From American dream to dilemma
John R. Thelin, University of Kentucky
For the Golden State of California, 1960 was a golden year: It was a time of rapid development, when...
The bigotry baked into welfare cuts
Sanford Schram, CUNY Graduate Center
The budget blueprint the House of Representatives recently unveiled isn’t a carbon copy of President Donald Trump’s proposal, dubbed “A...
Trump’s push for self-sufficiency misses the point of safety net programs
David Campbell, Binghamton University, State University of New York and Kristina Lambright, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Here’s how Office of Management and...
Trump’s planned military buildup is based on faulty claims, not good...
Daniel Wirls, University of California, Santa Cruz
President Donald Trump just released a budget plan intended to fulfill a promise to rebuild the military with...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
