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“We Can’t Burden Our Children with Deficit Spending”
By portraying a schoolchild weighed down by ignorance, poverty, and crime, Herblock objected to the resistance from Republican legislators to the Kennedy administration’s omnibus education bill, the National Education Improvement Act of 1963. Opposition to the 4.6-billion-dollar proposal focused on its cost and the increase to deficit spending. But concern about desegregation, federal involvement in funding education, and support for religious-based education also motivated the opponents. Herblock wrote, “Otherwise bright and influential citizens have yet to establish the connection between ignorance and poverty, education and employment, purchasing power and prosperity.”
“We Can’t Burden Our Children with Deficit Spending,” 1963. Published in the Washington Post, January 31, 1963. |