Defunding Social Services

Brenden Beck — 2025-07-15T05:00:00Z

Cities around the United States are bracing for federal funding cuts to social services. Yet, as Brenden Beck explains, cities have long been cutting social-service spending while increasing police spending, even as crimes rates have fallen.
When Dallas wrote its city budget last year, something was missing. The city had allocated zero dollars to its Skillman Southwestern library, effectively closing the branch. Seattle joined Dallas in slashing social services later in the year when it

- Debates / budget cuts, public services, social services, municipal budgets, police, United States

Building a Multifaceted Campaign for Public Higher Education

Stephen Brier & Michael Fabricant — 2016-10-04T06:39:27Z

In their new book, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, Michael Fabricant and Stephen Brier trace the waning support for public higher education and its deleterious effects on students, faculty, and American society at large. Here, they reflect on what helped the Professional Staff Congress at the City University of New York win the most recent round in the fight for public higher education at a time when greater access to public universities is sorely needed to

- From the Field / participation, inequalities, United States, media, New York, public policy, protest, education, public action, public education, mobilization, higher education, university, austerity, budget cuts, public investment, CUNY

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Defunding Social Services

Building a Multifaceted Campaign for Public Higher Education