Higher Education
This NYC Mayor’s budget cuts to CUNY have saved the city $94 million that the community colleges certainly didn’t need for professors and student advisers.
Who is Mayor Adams?
The Trump Administration’s last budget proposed hundreds of millions of dollars of cuts to this program which provides health insurance coverage for adults and children with limited income and resources.
What is Medicaid?
House Republicans unveiled a proposal earlier this year to make huge cuts to this federal department, including its homelessness programs
What is Housing and Urban Development (HUD)?
Due to the loss of federal aid, as early as 2025, the MTA could experience this many billion dollars in budget shortfall each year (Between 1 and 5)
What is $3 billion?
This governor proposed billions of dollars in cuts to climate programs in their state (Not New York)
Who is Gavin Newsom?
While the total amount of funding for higher education has ________ overall over the last forty years, the amount per full-time student has _________. (Either Increased or Decreased)
What is Increased, decreased?
This New York State governor proposed one billion dollars in health spending cuts, but was pressured to drop them after pressure over potential cuts to healthcare worker wages and home care services.
Who is Kathy Hochul?
Trump’s first term’s budgets called for cuts to this rental assistance program, which would have kicked 200,000 people off the program, which if implemented in the next four years, may make it impossible for many renters to stay in their homes
What is Section 8 (Housing Choice Voucher program)?
Around this percentage of states spend less than $12 per person on public transportation (Multiple of ten)
What is 60 percent? (30 states).
Trump’s last budget before he left office proposed cuts to the environmental protection agency. These cuts totaled this percentage of the EPA budget.
What is 25%?
This bombshell event led New York City to establish tuition for CUNY
What is the 1976 Fiscal Crisis?
Under this law, potentially on the chopping block in the next four years, 40 states expanded their health insurance programs for their low-income population, which drove the US uninsured rate to a record low.
What is Obamacare/Affordable Care Act?
Donald Trump’s administration in 2021 proposed to cut hundreds of thousands of individuals off this program, which was formerly known as food stamps, cuts which includes free or reduced price school meals.
What is SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program)?
Underinvestment has resulted in dilapidated public transit conditions in New York. ___ in 4 signals on the LIRR are rated as poor.
What is 3?
Donald Trump has called for eliminating the largest investment in Green energy in American history, which occurred under this bill passed during the Biden administration
What is the inflation reduction act?
This many states spent more on higher education in Fiscal Year 2024 than Fiscal Year 2008 (Multiple of Ten)
What is 20?
Proposed cuts to the federal budget by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy may cut into healthcare because healthcare spending makes up one out of every ______ dollars spent by the federal government (Number below 10)
What is 4?
The share of single parents in the United States living on less than $2 a day is nearly ___ percent before you include federal food benefits. The number then drops below 3 percent.
What is 10?
This percentage of federal funding for transportation goes to highways. The rest goes to transit (multiple of ten)
What is 80%?
Earlier this year, Kathy Hochul initially proposed cutting infrastructure for this important public good.
What is clean water?
Higher education spending in New York peaked under this governor and has never recovered
Who is George Pataki? Late 2000s.
The federal government’s low-income health insurance program pays for this percentage of births nationwide (multiple of ten)
What is 40%?
Last year, the Adams administration proposed cuts to subsidies for this type of affordable housing, which provides direct assistance to individuals and families who are either homeless or at direct risk of homelessness.
What is Supportive Housing?
The MTA could suffer under the incoming administration, as the Trump administration’s funding totaled _______ percent of Biden’s funding (Hint-its under ten)
What is 2 percent? (76 million compared to 4 billion)
Earlier this year, there were one billion dollar proposed cuts by the city to this government agency which manages car and building compliance with environmental regulations
What is the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS)?