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Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: ''Over just the last year 41 states have cut spending for public higher education. That s on top of deep cuts in 2009 and 2010.... Rising tuition and fees are making up the shortfall.... The children of middle- and lower-income families are hardest hit. Remember: The median wage has been dropping since 2000, adjusted for inflation.''

http://www.truth-out.org/stop-starving-public-universities-and-shrinking-middle-class/1330614677

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The War on Teachers: Why Is the Public Watching It Happen?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/13-10

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Public Education ''Failure by Design,''

By Noam Chomsky

''There has been a shift from the belief that we as a nation benefit from higher education, to a belief that it s the people receiving the education who primarily benefit and so they should foot the bill,''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30985.htm



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