{"id":240,"date":"2009-04-20T22:02:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T04:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/?p=240"},"modified":"2014-03-29T20:19:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T01:19:22","slug":"spend-a-buck-get-8-bucks-back-good-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/spend-a-buck-get-8-bucks-back-good-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Spend a buck, get 8 bucks back&#8230; Good deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;State Rep. Hollis Downs will use the realization that Louisiana Tech returns almost $8 for every $1 spent as he argues against cuts to higher education this year.<\/p>\n<p>The rate of return on the investment the state makes in Tech comes as part of a larger study by the eight members of the University of Louisiana System. Tech President Dan Reneau presented the results of the study in a news conference Friday. The university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spending impact statewide clocks in at $462.5 million.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Read the entire article at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rustonleader.com\/news.php?id=5181\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.rustonleader.com\/news.php?id=5181<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tech&#8217;s budget cuts are estimated at being a total of about 12 million this year. I encourage my fellow Tech Alumns, regardless of where you live, to contact the LA Gov.&#8217;s office and demand higher education&#8217;s funding be restored. If enough of us put pressure on his office, he&#8217;ll have to give in. He did on the on the pay raises (see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/?p=72\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/?p=72<\/a> for details).<\/p>\n<p>Contact Gov. Jindal&#8217;s Office at:<\/p>\n<p>PO Box 94004<br \/>\nBaton Rouge, LA 70804-9004<br \/>\nPhone: 225-342-7015 or 866-366-1121 (Toll Free)<br \/>\nFax: 225-342-7099<br \/>\ne-mail at:<a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.gov.louisiana.gov\/index.cfm?md=form&amp;tmp=email_governor\"> http:\/\/www.gov.louisiana.gov\/index.cfm?md=form&amp;tmp=email_governor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;State Rep. Hollis Downs will use the realization that Louisiana Tech returns almost $8 for every $1 spent as he argues against cuts to higher education this year. The rate of return on the investment the state makes in Tech &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/spend-a-buck-get-8-bucks-back-good-deal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}