Reagan cut way back on student aid

[Dirty Socialist]

Remember that

[Meadowoak]

1. I sure do, at that point, I could no longer afford to go, never was able

to finish.

[jimfields33]

2. Was it done by EO? Judges should have stopped it.

Congress at that time never would have done something like this so he had to do it through an EO.

[Dirty Socialist]

3. He might have had help from

Boll weevil Democrats

[jimfields33]

4. No way. Not with college funding

[moondust]

5. Old Cynic says...

the wealthy beneficiaries of Reaganomics/trickle down economics/predatory capitalism who want to be trillionaires depend on unschooled people in dire circumstances who are happy to crawl across broken glass for a job offering a few crumbs to barely keep them alive. Education of the poor is the enemy.

[uponit7771]

6. K&R,

[former9thward]

7. Student aid went up it the 1980s

http://www.freeby50.com/2012/05/financial-aid-versus-college-costs-over.html

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. The chart you posted says it hit bottom in the '80s.

[former9thward]

12. Maybe you should look again.

That "bottom" was higher than the '70s and it went up for the rest of the decade. Where is the evidence student aid was "cut way back"?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. You're looking at loans, not aid.

[former9thward]

14. OK, where is the evidence "aid" was cut "way back"?

Aid started sharply going down in 1976 and hit a bottom in 1983 and then went back up for the rest of the decade.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. Your chart, which also shows it didn't recover to 1975-76 levels until 1999-00.

[former9thward]

16. How does something that started in 75-76 have anything to do with Reagan.

That is the point. There is no evidence that aid or grants were "cut way back" in that period compared with the immediate past.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. Your chart shows exactly that -- aid fell to its lowest after Reagan took office.

Furthermore,

[former9thward]

18. The sharp decrease started in 75-76 and continued for the rest of the 70s.

That is where it was cut way back.

Your chart about tuition increase (a different topic) shows a mild increase in the 80s and it really takes off about 2000 and does not stop. Why is the IL government allowing such an increase at a state school?

[FSogol]

20. Fuck Reagan.

[CentralMass]

8. I remember this well. I graduated from high school in '78

[Torchlight]

10. Reagan and the GOP successfully de-funded education.

They got their way, and opposition to rectifying that problem now are met with righteous howls of social indignation.

Reagan convinced a lot of otherwise at-least-not-stupid people that regression of education is a forward move.

[electric_blue68]

11. Why am I NOT Surprised...

I was out of college and working at least 7 years before this happened. .
Since my college had a realatively low tuition fee my parents were able to pay it for me.

So being out of that circle I don't remember it, and I
was certainly somewhat occupied with a lot of other outrages Ronnie Ray-gun was perpetuating.

[Kaleva]

19. Dems and Repubs in Congress took away my GI Bill benefits in 1984

I did manage to go to a 2 year technical school at a nearby college by getting loans and wiping out my savings. I paid the loans off in the 90's.