The government should also expand grants to the Fisher House program, a public-private partnership that has "comfort homes" at every major military medical center.
And New York is exploring options to expand grant-based aid at the state level to help students afford college without taking on more debt.
In addition to running Morphologic Studios, which hopes to expand, grants willing, into developing 3-D aquariums and installations, Coral Morphologic is heavily tied, as is the Borscht Festival, to the local rock scene, currently lead by bands Jacuzzi Boys and ANR.
The New America Foundation recently proposed overhauling the federal student aid system by expanding grant opportunities to reduce post-graduation debt loads.
As well as suspending the bedroom tax, the report's recommendations include extending and expanding grants and subsidies for social housing and increasing regulation and accountability in the private rented sector.
Mr. Clinton said the budget proposal he would unveil next week, which requires Congressional approval, will include tax incentives of $2 billion over 10 years as well as expanded grants to encourage the private sector to donate computers, sponsor technology centers in poor neighborhoods and train those not yet connected to the Web.
Expand grants to states and local education agencies to improve science, technology, education and math which are so vital for the 21st century workforce.
Instead, the proposed overhaul would broaden the government's existing direct-lending program, saving billions of dollars that the president had proposed using to expand Pell grant scholarships for low-income students.
"How do we produce more learning for students with the resources our taxpayers can provide?" Mr. Cuomo, in his address, also proposed to expand a grant program created last year for State University of New York schools, calling them "a precious jewel of this state".
The bill will expand block grants to states for research and promotion of fruits and vegetables.
