NYC Mayor Destroys Library Budget

 

The man who is already vilified for his lack of support for the police, wants to make America a Communist dump, and exhibits support for anti-Semitism at every chance, now wants to further hurt people by proposing a significant cut to the public library system. After restoring some of his other earlier proposed cuts to the library budget, Mayor Zohar Mamdani still is shorting the library community $100 million next year — a 20 percent cut!

Who does that help? Not the people who use the library, who need its computer resources, collection of reference materials, books, periodicals, educational workshops, quiet desks, and a safe neighborhood gathering space.

Library budgets should go up — not go down! 

I understand everything is on the table when you run deficit, as NYC has been spending more than it takes in, but in a 124-billion-dollar budget, the library budget is a 250th of that. You don’t save anything when you fail to invest in education, literacy, and a sense of community.  

The combined annual operating budgets for America’s more than 17,000 public libraries total over $11.5 billion. This network serves nearly 1.3 billion visits each year. NYC tends to spend more on libraries, per capita, than most cities and states — but it is imperative that every library system be funded to its fullest capacity to serve society’s needs. 

New York City must lead the way of the nation in many areas, especially when it comes to serving the reading public. 

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