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I'm Magna Chacrabardi.

In the past 10 years, state funding for public to and for your colleges

has been cut by more than $6 billion.

And that's after adjusting for inflation.

And in a handful of states like Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi,

per student funding has fallen by more than 30%.

At the same time, federal funding for higher ed

has also fallen.

Back in 1979, Pell Grants, which are federal dollars

given to low-income students to help pay for college,

those Pell Grants went from covering 80% of the cost

of attending a four-year public institution to just 30%.

Meanwhile, college costs have gone up more than 2,000%

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