California Academic Budget Crisis
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California Academic Budget Crisis
"Just how big is the state's deficit? As Herb Wesson, speaker of the State Assembly, remarked, "That's a hole so deep and so vast that even if we fired every single person on the state payroll, every park ranger, every college professor and every Highway Patrol officer we would still be more than $6 billion dollars short"(wsws.org). This topic is the subject of discussion among many people, including students. Early last year, Governor Gray Davis proposed a budget cut for California to compensate for the $34.8 billion dollar deficit. The budget cut has affected health, k-12 education, and college level education programs. According to U.N.I...