at least two states are bucking the trend

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<p>to bad they are both so cold!
<a href="http://hechingerreport.org/content/two-states-poured-money-public-higher-education-2_18160/"&gt;http://hechingerreport.org/content/two-states-poured-money-public-higher-education-2_18160/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Why not Minot!</p>

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<p>They have oil money. Period.</p>

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<p>^ This.</p>

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<p>ND also has boom and bust cycles so they have to take advantage when they are in a boom. </p>

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No, not period.</p>

<p>They have oil money AND a small population. </p>

<p>Texas, too, has oil money, bit it has a huge population, including a relatively high poverty rate. </p>

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<p>Okay, good point. </p>

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<p>Maybe a third thing . . . lots of oil money, few people, and few other attractions to draw people from outside. </p>

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<p>Education has always been a priority in the ‘cold’ states. From K on up, money is spent on education.</p>

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<p>Yup, that’s why New Hampshire, Vermont, Montana, Idaho, South Dakota, and Nebraska devote such high percentages of their state budget towards funding higher ed :stuck_out_tongue: </p>

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<p>And it’s not so much where the money came from as what they’re doing with that money. I’m impressed that it’s been spent on higher education. There are a lot of other things that money could have been spent on but North Dakota decided to prioritize higher ed…</p>

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<p>If anyone is curious, here’s the Center on Budget and Policy Priority’s report on how state budgets for higher ed increased/ decreased since 2008.
<a href=“http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=4135#_ftn2”>http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=4135#_ftn2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Unfortunately it doesn’t show the real per person dollar amounts that states spend on higher education, meaning that some states which registered the lowest decrease in funding could also be the ones which already spent the least money.</p>