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Tom Harkin: “States are spending 28 percent less per student on higher education than they did in 2008.”

On the recordApril 16, 2013
States are spending 28 percent less per student on higher education than they did in 2008.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin highlights the decline in state funding for higher education.

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