Government spending on education has failed to match the pace of economic growth.
GDP, government spending on education hardly changed at all in the 1990s.
It came 27th for the resourcing of universities and 41st out of 48 for government spending on higher education.
But the deficit already hampers growth by limiting government spending on infrastructure, education and health.
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The central government is spending more on education: 54 billion yuan last year, an increase of more than 39%.
Furthermore, it will be many years before anyone knows whether the government's extra spending on education bears any fruit in improving work opportunities for the poorest children.
One of Mr Gore's main themes of attack is likely to be that the Bush tax cut will be "risky" and will endanger the economic growth of the last few years and also threaten government spending on popular areas like education and health care.
It also postpones by two months steep automatic spending cuts to federal government spending on things like defence and education.
But by slashing government spending on basic services such as education and advocating yet more tax cuts at the top, they undermine equality of opportunity.
Far from stinting on schools, America spends far more than the international average, and the federal government is spending record amounts on elementary and secondary education.
Only a third of the federal government's drug-control spending goes on drugs education or drugs treatment.
GDP, had been spent on education and health, government spending in those areas would have been 85% higher.
When states rely upon highly volatile sources of revenue, such as personal or corporate income, these peaks and valleys tend to worsen in tough economic times and often lead to long-term, detrimental cuts in in spending on education and other critical government services.
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Another Calgarian, Ralph Klein, though a Conservative, as premier of Alberta since 1993 was the first to put Reform's ideas into practice, slashing spending on health and education and privatising many government services.
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The government has ramped up spending on the treatment of drug addicts and on education campaigns a recognition that drug consumption is now a big problem in Mexico as well as the United States.
And most noticeably the conference is simply unable to come to terms with the government's case for rigorous control of public spending, especially on health and education.
Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman, said the election is important because regions control spending on health care and education and account for half of government employees.
In Tanzania, the government devotes three times more to debt-servicing than to education, on which spending has dropped two-thirds in a decade.
For instance, prominent members of the local government in the Maryland county where number-one ranked military contractor Lockheed Martin has its headquarters have called on the federal government to slash defense spending as a way of freeing up money for education, health care and the homeless.
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Economists have long been urging Beijing to compel state companies to hand over more of their profits to the central government as a way to help pay for increased spending on pensions, health care, low-income housing and education.
With his eye on Peru's social problems, Mr Toledo has pledged to reform the structure of government spending, raising education's share to 30% of the budget.
Second, Mr Fox needs the tax rises to pay for his other plans, such as increased spending on education, social services and infrastructure, as well as to revamp Pemex and reduce the government's dependence on ever-uncertain oil income.
But it also suggests that increased spending by individuals would be uneconomic--and raises the question of what the returns are on government investment in higher education.
This is also leaving out all of the effects of State spending on the same issues, plus leaving out the effect of government or tax paid for services like K-12 education.
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