Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HOUSE or Representatives struck a highly commendable stand in favor of higher education last week when it passed a budget that aims to increase funding for education programs by $2.2 billion. Against this background it is particularly galling that Senate support for its scaled-down version of the House increases is tenuous at best...
...knows for sure how much of the $2.2 billion would be earmarked for student financial aid, but Capitol Hill aids put the figure at more than half. Unfortunately, the Senate doesn't view student aid as a very high priority. Under the most widely supported of four Senate budget proposals being considered, some student aid programs would get a $120 million boost, but at the expense of other educational initiatives that help students pay for school, notably Work-Study...
...support for education in one of two ways. A few echo Education Secretary William J. Bennett's attractive but thin arguments about using scarce education dollars to help primary and secondary schools rather than richer colleges and universities. Others simply talk about the pressing need to reduce the budget...
MANY SENATORS rightly fear that the growing budget deficit is contributing to America's trade imbalance. But they are looking at the wrong programs...
...House was able to boost education funding $2.2 billion and reduce the budget deficit by $36 billion because it split the cuts equally among social and defense spending and--more importantly--had the guts to call for a tax hike...