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		bko on March 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health c... US spending more than average OECD country on education in relative terms (GDP) and even more in absolute terms due to higher GDP It's just that high absolute amount of medicare spending throws off the comparison. https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/PF1_2_Public_expenditure_educat...

Tossito190 on March 21, 2021 [–]

If you throw money at a black hole, and put the expenditures under the "education" column, that's where it will be counted. You should see the inane &#@* they buy, and the volumes of it they purchase.

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