Kicker checks are going to be mailed out soon, and with an excess of $1.1 billion, there's plenty to go around. So what does $1.1 billion in could have been tax dollars amount to?
A billion dollars is a lot of money -- and a lot of lost opportunity. This year's kicker, for example, would cover four years of tuition and fees for about 45,000 Oregonians at one of Oregon's public universities. About 8,000 Oregon high school graduates enter Oregon colleges each year. A billion dollars could have funded full college rides for all Oregon high school graduates entering the next five freshman classes.
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