Unfortunately for the majority of voters who want to maintain public investment in health and education, austerity has become the foolish wisdom of both parties. The Democratic governor of California, Jerry Brown, is cutting at least as deeply as his Republican counterparts in other big states, and with the same absence of developmental vision. Enormous cuts are directed at that cornerstone of upward mobility for working- and middle-class people, our public colleges and universities… Although the Democrat-controlled state Senate budget committee opposed many of Jerry Brown’s proposed cuts in various essential public services, they accepted Brown’s $500 million cut for University of California and California State University, plus $400 million more carved from the community colleges. Why does higher education do so much worse than other segments?

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by Christopher Newfield, The Huffington Post.

Posted: March 4th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.