What do the Index of Cultural Indicators graphs show happening to bad and good social trends from 1960 to 1990?

Les explains that this book, The Index of Cultural Indicators, was written as a parallel to the government’s index of economic indicators. Using government figures, it graphs social trends from 1960 to 1990. The bad things—abortion, single parents, illegitimate births, murder, drug use, alcoholism—all went on a straight angle up. The next page showed the good things on a line down. The amazing thing is that government spending was on a line going up almost parallel to the bad trends. Les says this told him government is subsidizing societal collapse, and we are paying for it. He then recalls a related discussion about the public school system and a high-level educator’s disturbing statement, though he cannot remember the man’s name.