Department of Education Spending, 1980 to 2010
Figure 1 depicts the billions of dollars in outlays (money spent) by the Department of Education from 1980 to 2010.(1) These expenditures are not adjusted for inflation.(2)
Figure 1. Department of Education Spending 1980-2010 (billions of dollars)
Source: Ronald Reagan and Education Policy.
Figure 2, meanwhile, depicts these same data adjusted for inflation and expressed as 1981 dollars. Note the large difference in the size of the outlays
