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Article: Poll: American Public Links Education Funding To Strong And Secure Nation, See Education as Leading Federal Spending Priority
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- March 19, 2002
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WASHINGTON, March 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In poll results released
in a briefing on Capitol Hill today, findings showed that an
overwhelming majority of Americans see education as an essential
component in our efforts to strengthen our nation's security.
The poll, which was conducted by Ipsos-Reid, a global polling and
market research organization, on behalf of the Committee for
Education Funding (CEF), asked respondents to rate several reasons
why there should be increased federal spending on education. A
resounding 85 percent judged our country's need for stronger national
security as a "good reason" to increase federal education spending,
with 65 percent of those classifying it as a "very ...