Now the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission wants to give low-income Americans a new option by letting them use the Lifeline subsidy for high-speed Internet connections instead of a home phone line or a mobile phone account.
State subsidies for higher education benefit rich and poor alike.
It pays subsidies for higher education and housing assistance for the poor.
A scarcity of student loans and subsidies for higher education, meanwhile, means that paying for college requires hefty savings.
You could argue that with the private returns so high to attending college, maybe the United States government is right not to provide more subsidies for higher education.
Many rich Indians still pay small amounts like $400 a year for education in the country's top colleges – a legacy of deep government subsidies for higher education.
As government subsidies for higher education continue to shrink relative to the costs of running institutions of higher learning, we can either squeeze the quality of our colleges or raise tuitions.
With the government ready to announce huge cuts in subsidies for higher education in England, student and faculty groups are warning that soaring tuition will deter the poor from going to college and saddle young graduates with heavy debts.
Among other difficulties, implementing a policy to promote the adoption of cleaner combustion technologies must overcome the seemingly paradoxical result that efficient control calls for higher technology subsidies for higher income households.
Offering taxpayer subsidies for high loan-to-value mortgages worth up to £600,000, just as the incorrigibly boom-bust British housing market is moving from stop-to-go mode, is at best risky, at worst, downright reckless.
