They build on actions such as the Open Government Directive, the Digital Government Strategy, and, most recently, the Open Data Initiatives project, which is bringing the benefits of open data to a wide range of domains including health, energy, education, public safety, finance, and global development.

FORBES: Obama Signs Open Data Executive Order: U.S. Government Data To Be Made Freely Available

The evidence is relatively clear, public subsidies for higher education are being absorbed by the institutions and used to finance campus expansion and growing university bureaucracies.

FORBES: Subsidy-Absorbing Institutions of Higher Education

Although this is a race for the United States Senate, his platform focuses on local issues: bringing new businesses to the state and attacking a 1997 property-tax law intended to help finance better public education.

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Faced with the harsh reality of student debt, the NYPIRG and New York State Higher Education Services Corporation (HESC) came together to power the National College Finance Center and its national public service campaign.

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As far as public expenditure is concerned, we have said that we are able to finance the frontline services in education and health and policing, and what we've said is for other areas there is so much uncertainty about what's likely to happen to the economy at the moment that we will make these decisions in a spending review at the appropriate time.

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