Metro Focus: Budget Threatens Programs for City Kids [Update]

Budget Threatens Programs for City Kids

By Georgia Kral

UPDATE, May 3: Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s executive budget released today does not restore the cuts to children’s services first put forward in his preliminary budget.

United Neighborhood Houses called the budget “disgraceful.”

“The fact that services supporting low-income communities including after-school and child care programs have failed to rise to the top of the Mayor’s priority list is shameful,” they said in a statement.

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