Traditionally, the federal government has partnered with states and families to cover the cost of higher education. Tuition has gone up significantly in recent years and state funding has dropped.
Louisiana has been singled out as the worst in the nation, spending 41% less per student in 2014 than in 2008. Arizona, too, gets a superlative for cutting funding by 27% since 2011. That state now has public, community colleges that get no state funding.
