david robertsDec 18, 2022

If Dems don't defend libraries, WTF are they for?

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NYC mayor Eric Adams is demanding city libraries to cut their budgets by $13.6 million by the end of fiscal year 2023, and another $20.5 million over the next 3 fiscal years. This will be devastating for the services and operations of the library system.
https://jacobin.com/2022/12/eric-adams-new-york-public-library-budget-cuts-austerity/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jacobin/status/1604189691867176969

Eric Adams’s Public Library Cuts Would Devastate a System Average New Yorkers Need

New York’s public libraries are essential institutions providing a wide range of services and cultural programming on top of books and media. If Eric Adams’s proposed library cuts go through, huge numbers of New Yorkers will suffer immensely.

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@drvolts Someone wrote, and it helped me thereafter, that ‘the key to understanding NY politics is that some of the democrats are democrats, and some of the democrats are republicans’.
He has also queried why the library systems weren’t funded as part of the Dept of Education, which illustrates his current depth of understanding of their mission in society and NYC…
Dec 18, 2022 at 9:31pmWeb