State Support for Colleges Declines As Student Diversity Grows - Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer

As the largest single spending category for state governments (Medicaid is larger, but the federal government supplies a majority of the money), public education took a particularly large blow from this double whammy of reduced revenues and tax-cut-driven spending cuts. Within the education category, higher education was particularly targeted for cuts, mostly for the simple reason that public colleges and university had the alternative revenue source of raising tuition charges. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/state-support-for-colleges-declines-student-diversity-grows.html