claim: says the state share of texas public education spending increased 82 percent over the past decade, reaching $20 billion in 2009.
author: rick perry
evidence_1: mar 11, 2011 ... combined, the districts employed 661285 people in 2009-10. ... that state  education funding was 82 percent greater in 2009 than it was a decade earlier. ...  the state picked up 46 percent of school districts' spending in 1998-99; that ...  pitching for lawmakers to support more educational spending, state sen.
evidence_2: nov 29, 2017 ... public investment in k-12 schools — crucial for communities to ... schools — by 7  percent or more per student over the last decade, ... some 47 percent of k-12  spending nationally comes from state funds (the share varies .... nevada, the  state with the sharpest reductions, cut capital spending by 82 percent.
evidence_3: mar 24, 2009 ... in 2006, the pew center on the states launched the public safety performance ...  (washington, dc: the pew charitable trusts, march 2009). .... more prison  spending brings lower public safety returns . ..... budgets, and over the past  two decades, its ..... transportation (82 percent), higher education (125.
evidence_4: aug 23, 2017 ... a decade since the great recession hit, state spending on public ... the school  year ending in 2017) was nearly $9 billion below its 2008 level, after adjusting for  inflation. ... over the past several years, public colleges and universities have ...  eighteen states cut funding per student by more than 20 percent, ...
evidence_5: approximately 43.5 million caregivers have provided unpaid care to an adult or ...  caregiving in the u.s.]; the majority of caregivers (82%) care for one other adult,  ... provided by informal caregivers has steadily increased over the last decade, ...  [national alliance for caregiving and aarp. (2009). caregiving in the u.s.] ...