Government Spending on Higher Education Reaches an All-Time High
…part by factors that are related to education but not necessarily caused by education. Individuals with high intelligence and discipline tend to excel in education and obtain more of it,…
Read moreBernie Sanders’ Education Plan is Rife With Deceit
…education.” Yet, data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that average inflation-adjusted spending per public school student is near an all-time high: As detailed in the chart above, the…
Read moreEducation Funding and Results
By James D. Agresti March 10, 2016 During the Democratic presidential debate in Flint, Michigan, Hillary Clinton used a question about teachers’ unions to blame the state of the education…
Read moreMyths about School Choice and Betsy DeVos
…of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, per-pupil spending is “the gold standard in school finance.” Private school choice programs boost per-student funding in public schools, because the public schools…
Read moreThe School Funding Inequity Farce
…all education funding—like those conducted by the U.S. Department of Education (1996), Ph.D. economist Derek Neal (2006), the left-leaning Urban Institute (2008), and the conservative Heritage Foundation (2011)—have all found…
Read moreSocial Ills That Plague African Americans Coincide With Leftism, Not Racism
…U.S. Department of Education (1996), Ph.D. economist Derek Neal (2006), the left-leaning Urban Institute (2008), the conservative Heritage Foundation (2011), the Brookings Institution (2017), and the academic journal Education Next…
Read morePublic School Teachers Are Paid Far More Than Commonly Reported
…among the people” is the only “sure foundation” for the “preservation of freedom and happiness.” Thus, when media outlets misinform people about education, they thwart the very purpose of education….
Read moreLeading Progressives Blame the Wrong Culprit for Rising College Costs
…Funding of Higher Education The burden of paying for higher education is becoming a major campaign issue, and Democrat contenders like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are blaming the situation…
Read moreThe New York Times Regularly Publishes Falsehoods That Spur Violent Unrest and Civic Dysfunction
…Disproven by facts from the U.S. Department of Education (1996), Ph.D. economist Derek Neal (2006), the left-leaning Urban Institute (2008), the conservative Heritage Foundation (2011), and the academic journal Education…
Read moreDeceitful Evidence of Job Market Discrimination
…In Guo’s terminology, “black workers who do everything right” are those who get a college education, and “left behind” refers to an alleged 18% wage gap between college-educated black workers…
Read moreMost Federal Employees Are Paid More Than Their Private-Sector Counterparts
…of full-time, year-round private sector workers to non-postal, civilian, federal workers in 2011 to 2015. It accounted for education, occupation, work experience, geographic location, employer size, and various demographic characteristics….
Read moreCongressional Records Prove Biden’s Student Loan Cancellations Are Illegal
…released a legal memo declaring that he had the authority to do all this under the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003, or “HEROES” Act. The Legislative…
Read moreBusing, Segregation, and Education
By James D. Agresti June 28, 2019 During the second Democratic presidential debate, Kamala Harris stated that Joe Biden was “wrong to oppose busing” and equated this to support for…
Read moreHow to Separate Fact From Fiction
…law itself is vague and gives the NJ Department of Education broad authority to create these standards. Given the track record of the U.S. education establishment, this could be an…
Read morePoll Reveals Voters are Uninformed About Major Issues
…of 23 questions about education, healthcare, taxes, government spending, global warming, Social Security, energy, hunger, pollution, and the national debt. Overall, the majority of voters gave the correct answer to…
Read moreEffects of Immigration From Impoverished Nations
…deny a free public education to anyone based on their immigration status. Everyone who is eligible for free public education is also eligible for the national school lunch and school…
Read moreThe U.S. is a Democratic Constitutional Republic, and Yes, It Matters
…misleading or patently false. In reality: People were not trying to remove the term “democracy” from Michigan textbooks. Instead, they proposed education standards that would teach students that the U.S….
Read moreThe Effects of Regulations on the Economy
…of an economics book published by Johns Hopkins University Press, “The sectors that provide services related to human capital investments [like education and healthcare] may produce inefficiently because regulations preclude…
Read moreRape Facts and Falsehoods
…in the United States, governments, scientists, and scholars often obtain such data through scientific surveys. This is true of frequently quoted government data on crime, education, employment, the economy, and…
Read morePublic School Funding Per Student Averages 80% More Than Private Schools
…opposite of reality and has been so for decades. Twenty-five years ago, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) estimated that public K–12 schools spent an average of 43–52% more per…
Read moreBans on Plastic Bags Harm the Environment
…corporations like Disney, major media outlets like CBS—and because they have been misled about this subject since their youth. Such misinformation flows from educational resources like the Environmental Education Exchange’s…
Read moreFact-Based Poll Reveals Fictions Believed by Voters
…healthcare, Medicare, global warming, pollution, and Social Security. For instance, voters were asked: Do you think the federal government spends more money on social programs, such as Medicare, education, and…
Read morePoll Reveals Voters Misinformed About Key Issues
…aspect of each issue. For example, voters were asked: Do you think the federal government spends more money on social programs, such as Medicare, education, and food stamps – or…
Read moreHow Hard and Effectively do Americans Work?
…hours per day on income-generating work and obtaining education, and 5.3 hours per day on leisure and sports activities like watching TV, socializing, and exercise. Political posturing aside, Bush’s observations…
Read moreFalse Arguments Against Evidence of Vote Fraud
…but some clues can be gained by examining education levels. … We confront this issue primarily by weighting the data. … Weighting produces a non-citizen sample that appears to be…
Read moreWhat the $20 Trillion National Debt Means to You
…slightly, but spending has risen more: Since 1959, the composition of federal spending has changed dramatically. Spending on social programs (like income security, healthcare, education, and housing) has risen from…
Read moreIn America, Women and Men Earn Equal Pay for Equal Work
…characteristics such as flexibility that men and women may value differently.” “education quality or field of study, such as college major.” “cognitive ability or measures of social skills, all of…
Read moreFederal Fiscal Shortfall Surges Past $100 Trillion
…packages for government employees. When these benefits are included, civilian, non-postal federal employees receive an average of 17% more total compensation than private-sector workers with comparable education and work experience….
Read moreFederal Fiscal Shortfall Nears $1 Million Per Household
…government employees. When these benefits are included, civilian non-postal federal employees receive an average of 17% more total compensation than private-sector workers with comparable education and work experience. Postal workers…
Read moreThe “Anti-Science” Accusation
…many of whom have no formal science education beyond high school. Bloomberg is an exception, having earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins in 1964. Yet, Bloomberg…
Read moreAbortion, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution
…more than a century as the foundation of all legal education in Great Britain and the U.S.” As Wade noted, in this work, Blackstone wrote that life is a “right”…
Read moreCan We Prevent a Debt-Driven Economic Collapse Without Reforming Entitlements?
…defense, food stamps, other nutrition programs, unemployment, veterans’ benefits, federal employee retirement benefits, transportation, and education. The specifics above paint a much fuller and far different picture than Bernstein’s sanitized…
Read moreBlame for the National Debt
…as Medicare, education, and food stamps), which now comprise more than 60% of all federal expenditures (graph below). Moreover, other than interest on the national debt, nearly all future long-term…
Read moreDo Large National Debts Harm Economies?
…are less able to satisfy basic needs for food, shelter, clothing, education, and health. In a recent New York Times op-ed, Pollin and Ash (two thirds of HAP) write that…
Read morePre-Election Poll: Voters Broadly Misinformed About Key Issues
…Republican voters, 61% of third-party voters, and 38% of undecided voters. Question 4: Do you think the federal government spends more money on social programs, such as Medicare, education, and…
Read morePoll: Public Broadly Unaware that “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” was Disproved by Obama Administration
…December 15–20, 2015. This poll also contained 23 questions to measure voters’ knowledge of policy issues, such as education, healthcare, taxes, global warming, and hunger. Further details are available here….
Read moreTreasury Data Reveals Federal Shortfall of $614,000 per U.S. Household
…an average of 16% more in compensation than private-sector workers with comparable education and work experience. Postal workers receive an even greater premium. The recently released Treasury report shows that…
Read moreAre Today’s Newborns the Luckiest Generation in U.S. History?
…the textbook Microeconomics for Today, countries with “slow growth in GDP per capita are less able to satisfy basic needs for food, shelter, clothing, education, and health.” Social Benefits In…
Read moreIllegal Immigrants and Federal Income Taxes
…that they have much lower levels of education, which is highly correlated to earnings. In 2012, 7% of people aged 25 to 64 who were born in the U.S. did…
Read moreSubstantial Numbers of Non-Citizens Vote Illegally in U.S. Elections
…portion of the survey respondents that “mimics the characteristics” of the target population. These characteristics include “age, race, gender, education, marital status, number of children under 18, family income, employment…
Read moreA Factual Look at Obama’s Presidency
…a baseline of zero or any negative figures. As explained in The Secrets of Economic Indicators, a textbook published by the Wharton School and Pearson Education, “The first release of…
Read moreNew Treasury Data Shows Federal Shortfall of $670,000 Per U.S. Household
…included, civilian, non-postal federal employees receive an average of 16% more in compensation than private-sector workers with comparable education and work experience. Postal workers receive an even greater premium. The…
Read moreMedia Bias Fact Check: Incompetent or Dishonest?
…scientist. a professor of education policy. a Ph.D. oceanographer. a licensed actuary at one of the nation’s largest accounting firms. a manager of several hydroelectric power facilities. the head of…
Read more2017: The Year in Facts and Falsehoods
…an average of $50,000 for every household in the United States. This money is distributed as follows: 61% on social programs, like income security, healthcare, and education 14% on debt…
Read moreFederal Government’s 2017 Fiscal Shortfall Is 74% Worse Than Reported Budget Deficit
…of 17% more compensation than private-sector workers with comparable education and work experience. Postal workers receive even greater premiums ranging from 25% to 43%. In 2016, federal, state and local…
Read moreNew Spending Bill Gives $35 Billion in Raises to Federal Workforce
…an average of 17% more total compensation than comparable private sector workers. At least five other recent studies that account for workers’ benefits, education, experience, and skills have found that…
Read moreThe School Segregation Farce
…due to immigration. Yet, the left is casting this as a racial injustice. This is highly deceitful, stokes racial tensions, and diverts attention from genuine problems in the education system….
Read moreLack of Assimilation is Economically Harming Latino Immigrants and Society
…than their English proficient counterparts.” “high-skilled immigrants who are not proficient in English are twice as likely to work in ‘unskilled’ jobs (i.e. those requiring low levels of education or…
Read moreVital Facts About Covid-19
…with low economic growth “are less able to satisfy basic needs for food, shelter, clothing, education, and health.” These hazards can manifest quickly and over extended periods of time. If…
Read moreAOC’s Baseless Accusation That the U.S. Is a “Brutal, Barbarian Society”
…every person who is reportedly below the poverty line. U.S. citizens also donate $38 billion per year to health charities, along with $59 billion to education charities, and $127 billion…
Read moreMaximum Facts About the Minimum Wage
…basic needs for food, shelter, clothing, education, and health.” The National Debt & Burden on Taxpayers Progressives claim that raising the minimum wage to $15/hour would reduce dependence on welfare…
Read moreComing To Grips With the Facts About Masks
…them was weak, and they all had substantial downsides for children’s education and health.” “Covid-19 hospitalizations have “remained extremely low among children, on par with pediatric flu hospitalizations during a…
Read moreThere’s No Objective Evidence the Federal “Assault Weapons” Ban Saved Lives
…brainwashed by it because the paper is “Accredited for Continuing Medical Education.” Summary In his speech, Biden declared that his gun control strategy is part of “my Unity Agenda,” but…
Read moreThe Border Is Less Secure Than Ever, and the Implications Are Deadly
…healthcare, emergency rent assistance, and emergency food assistance. free public education and school meals. full citizenship to any children they give birth to in the U.S., entitling them to all…
Read moreKrugman’s Accounting of the National Debt is Jailworthy
…income. These economic outcomes cause a host of negative impacts on human welfare in areas like education, nutrition, healthcare, and life expectancy. And when such problems occur, politicians and people…
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In 2021, what portion of all federal government spending was for social programs, such as healthcare, income security, education, housing, and recreation?…
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