{"id":13289,"date":"2009-06-11T22:35:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T22:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/higher_education_a_continual_struggle_in_south_carolina\/"},"modified":"2009-06-11T22:35:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T22:35:26","slug":"higher_education_a_continual_struggle_in_south_carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13289","title":{"rendered":"Higher Education a Continual Struggle in South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Allen, a member of the University of South Carolina&#8217;s board of trustees and a former state lawmaker, struggles with this issue every day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our state is currently 43rd in the nation in per capita income and 43rd in the nation in its percentage of citizens with four-year degrees,&#8221; Allen says. &#8220;The correlation is obvious: higher education affects economic development and the household income of our citizens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A recent study found that South Carolina had cut higher education spending more than any state in the union \u201d\u201d or the Confederacy. As a result, our in-state tuition rates are the highest in the Southeast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2009\/jun\/10\/the_high_price_higher_ed85406\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Allen, a member of the University of South Carolina&#8217;s board of trustees and a former state lawmaker, struggles with this issue every day. &#8220;Our state is currently 43rd in the nation in per capita income and 43rd in the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13289\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,54,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}