Between 1979 and 2012, state and local government expenditures grew by 107 percent to $534 billion from $258 billion for elementary and secondary education, while corrections spending rose by 324 percent to $71 billion from $17 billion, the U.S. Department of Education report found.
State and local spending on postsecondary education has remained mostly flat since 1990, the report said. Average state and local per capita spending on corrections increased by 44 percent as higher education funding per full-time equivalent student decreased by 28 percent, it said.
The United States spends about $80 billion a year on incarceration, White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett said on the conference call.
"One in three Americans of working age have a criminal record," she said. "That creates an often insurmountable barrier to successful reentry."
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-education-funding-idUSKCN0ZN2L2?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social
>that pic
What the fuck is going on in Hungary?
>>80126767
Shame that we waste money which could be spent on educating human children. Putting the niggers in prison is a huge waste of money. Then, even more is wasted paying them to breed. If we kill the niggers, prison spending will plunge, and schools wouldn't need as much money to be spent in a vain attempt to educate savage niggers.
>>80126767
Slovakia, explain yourself.
>>80126767
lol
>Hungary
>>80126767
>The United States spends about $80 billion a year on incarceration
It's a waste of money but when you have 17 trillion in debt, who's counting, amirite?
>>80127034
That's Slovakia
>>80127998
>It's a waste of money
It's kind of a welfare/stimulus initiative for the businesses providing the prisons and police equipment to the government. Most of the money goes to corporate profits and bonuses, which presumably reenters the economy and creates growth. It is similar to war, in the sense that companies that can bribe the government for contracts make a lot of money and improve the economy.
>>80127998
>$80 billion
It's... not all that much, really, compared to Defense (~590 billion), let alone Social Security (~900 billion) or Medicare/Medicare (1 trillion plus).
With the current budget deficit sitting at 580 billion per annum and counting, you could kill all incarceration it and it wouldn't really help.
>>80127114
Each public school student (k-12) costs tens of thousands a year.
Their dropout rates are dismal, and they never pay back the 100k+ payout over their lifetime in tax contributions.
They're a net drain.
>>80126767
We should sterilize prisoners.
>>80126767
90% of that spending goes to nigs in jail
>>80126767
>"One in three Americans of working age have a criminal record," she said. "That creates an often insurmountable barrier to successful reentry."
We'll all be slaves in another 50 years.
>>80131416
our education system has also barely changed at all since the 1800s. of all the advancements that has happened, still use the same shit in schools
