Around the state, parks are being closed, tuition hiked and state workers laid off in an attempt to salvage a very bad financial situation, one that is rife with misuse of funds and, in some cases, corruption.
Crockett Early Childhood Center is the closest public early childhood center to River Oaks, while Wilson Elementary School's preschool program is the closest tuition-based program.
The human costs of these cuts include schools cramming almost 40 of our children into single classrooms, domestic violence shelters closing, massive tuition hikes at our public colleges, and thousands of layoffs from our Healthy Families program.
But for New Yorkers, the closest free-tuition college is also the newest: Macaulay, the honors college of the City University of New York.
"That's getting close to covering tuition".
Some commercial schools set tuition close to that number.
The maximum amount paid out by the current GI Bill, passed in 1984 and designed for a smaller post-Vietnam force, does not come close to covering tuition costs except at the most affordable American universities, let alone books, fees, and living expenses.
The gap is closing rapidly between tuition rates in both countries.
A second job as a research assistant at a biomedical research center didn't bring her any closer to affording tuition.
They would do this by firing public sector workers, scapegoating teachers, closing libraries, upping tuition fees, rolling back union contracts, creating rush privatisations of public assets and decreasing pensions – mix the cocktail for where you live.
