Merits And Demerits Of State Funding

The justification for government spending on public universities is to promote the competition for higher skilled jobs. In a free market, most people wouldn't be able to afford the training and education required for higher skilled jobs, and more companies would seek to outsource the low skill jobs. This causes a surge in unemployment and a growing wage gap, so the government must step in and provide incentives and benefits to the general population.

When local property taxes were the primary source of school funding, districts were financially stable and were able to allocate funds for appropriate spendings. With the limitations set on property taxes, school budgets became dependent on the state’s fluctuating economy and tax collections. Fortunately, in 1988, Proposition 98 was passed, which set a minimum base funding for public schools. This proposition guaranteed funding that would grow each year with the changing economy along with student enrollment. This funding, though managed by the state was a combination of state General Fund and local property tax revenues.

The United States has many conflicts, one of them is funding on public education. Despite the fact that funding on public education will not help students succeed academically with the money provided to the schools, every school deserves to get as much money because students will receive more proper education and will be more successful students in the future.

The Housing First Initiative is a systematic method to end and prevent the reoccurrence of homelessness. The ideology behind Housing First is that homeless participants focus on obtaining permanent housing as a first step and work towards achieving goals towards self-sufficiency as a secondary objective. The dynamic component in the Housing First model is the collaboration between service providers within the community in order to promote independence for the participant and to deter cycles of

There is a crisis in California today creating a stalemate in decision making and solving of any problems the state faces. There are so many problems and so many solutions, that no progress can be made properly without conflicting interestests and opinions pausing any headway that might have been made. Most people believe that California is stuck where it is because of rules and regulations that are great on their own, but terrible when combined. The result of this crisis is a downwards spiral towards lower funding for public services and a seemingly insurmountable problem with budgeting. Some changes have been made to help the budget, but they still aren 't enough due to the many elements that cause this crisis to be so complicated.

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In 2016, Maine citizens passed a citizen’s referendum to allocate long awaited state funding for Maine schools. It was paid for by a 3 percent surcharge on household income exceeding $200,000 per year. The increase in maine income tax can further benefit the school systems by providing funds that could increase the teaching curriculum and equipment needed to provide a stable and strong education to Maine’s youth. Throughout the years, Maine’s education system has lacked the necessary funding to compete with other states educations systems, with sufficient funding Maine schools will be able to compete and produce a top pedigree of student ready for the working world and further education. Three important aspects to this funding are, better

Spending has become important because of the debt that the state is in right now ("TPPF Releases...). This issue would be a social responsibility, because one of the recommendations says that the state needs to raise taxes to pay its debt, which will include people paying them (Foundation). Higher education affordability is another issue that is argued. The cost of education is unpayable, this would be a personal responsibility. If someone decides to go to college and do the revenue bond it is the person’s choice (Foundation).

State funding is funding provided by the State or a state, especially for a particular project or service. Some 46 percent of K-12 spending nationally comes from state funds. Cuts at the state level force local school districts to scale back educational services, raise more local revenue to cover the gap or both.Most states provide less support per student for elementary and secondary schools in some cases, much less than before the Great Depression, our survey of state budget documents over the last three months finds. Worse, some states are still cutting eight years after the recession took hold. At least 31 states provided less state funding per student in the 2014 school year than in the 2008 school year, before the recession took hold. In at least 15 states, the cuts exceeded 10 percent. A few of the reasons why states have cut funding so deeply is because they have been getting weak revenues so they have been increasing the cost. State policy choices have also differed. As well as the reliance on spending cuts to close budget shortfalls and enactment of recent tax cuts. State revenues have improved lately but not enough to keep pace

The argument over should schools be controlled by state /federal or controlled locally is a good question. You can argue that schools should just be controlled at the local level, then you can counter argue why schools should be controlled at the state/federal level. Both sides have great arguments to support their claims.

To begin with, revenue is the money governments bring in, mainly from taxes. Why do we have state revenues? We have state revenue to help fund important services. Three areas of spending make up over half of state spending, on average. These three areas are K-12 education, higher education, and health care. Where do state revenues come from? More than half of state and local governments in 2008 came from six primary taxes. These came from sales taxes, including excise taxes, property taxes, income taxes, motor vehicle taxes, estate taxes, and gift taxes. As states struggled to balance their budgets, they turned to all of these taxes for help. They raised almost $24 billion in tax and fee increases in their 2010 budgets alone.

Campaign funds come from political action committees and individual donors. The political action committee donates a nice amount to campaign funds there are also other ways that campaigns come up with money.

Daiski & Halifax & Mitchell, 2012 discuss the lived experience of homelessness in the suburban areas in the Peel Region. These individuals who faced homelessness expressed feelings of being trapped and pushed out by society. However, these individuals did not want to leave their area as this is where they grew up (Daiski & Halifax & Mitchell, 2012). Homelessness affects many people, in Peterborough there were 63 individuals who stayed in shelters every night (Affordable Housing Action Committee, 2016).

Situation number two is a positive externality. A positive externality is when a third-party benefits from an economic transaction. It’s also called “free riding.” This is where an individual uses a benefit without having to pay for it. I believe all states should provide free tuition. If more people had the chance to go to school to better themselves then the economy would rise significantly. The crime rates would decrease, less stress, more productivity in the workplace and more equal opportunities. Without the stress of paying for tuition, students can focus on learning instead of struggling. The society as a whole would be better off, with overall better decision making and thinking. All this talk about better opportunities for everybody

Critically argue whether the better-than-average effect has overall positive or negative implications to individuals and/or society.