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Tuition has skyrocketed, public funding has decreased (if not "plummeted").

e.g. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/most-americans-dont-r...

This doesn't look like plummeted to me.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184069/federal-funds-for....

Local and state funding of education is much higher than federal funding.

Spending still went up. So it doesn’t make sense to say, as OP did, that cuts made higher education “worse.”

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