Report: State’s higher ed funding cuts among worst - RONNIE ELLIS CNHI, Daily Independent

While Kentucky’s policy makers wail about the lack of skilled workers and the inability to meet employers’ need for such workers, the state’s lawmakers have enacted the 10th largest cuts to higher education in the nation since the Great Recession. Kentucky provides 26.4 percent less in per pupil spending on higher education in 2017 than it did in 2008 at the beginning of the crippling recession, according to a study by the Washington, D.C.-based Center on Economic Policy Priorities. That translates to a $2,832 reduction for each higher education student in Kentucky, ranking 10th among the 44 states which spend less on higher education in 2017 than they did in 2008. http://www.dailyindependent.com/news/report-state-s-higher-ed-funding-cuts-among-worst/article_4e1da4ec-8864-11e7-bd6c-0b0f3ec98d3d.html