2010 Budget: URA Values Education

On Tuesday, March 16, Gov. Christie unveiled his budget proposal for the coming year. His vision includes over $1 billion in cuts to education with almost $200 million in direct cuts to public higher education. These cuts are coupled with a tax cut of over $1 billion for New Jerseyans making more than $400,000 per year. It’s just not right to cut over a billion dollars from education and give the money to millionaires.

Please click through to http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/2010njbudget to ask your legislators to fund education in this year's budget and send this message to co-workers, friends and family who care about education.

The URA-AFT, AFT Rutgers, along with our sisters and brothers at the College Council and NJ State Federation of Teachers call on the Governor and the Legislature to withdraw these proposed cuts to K-12 and Higher Education. Keep the same tax as last year for incomes over $400,000. This would be a bipartisan solution to two of the state’s greatest concerns – the future of both our education and our economy. One pays for the other and education makes big returns on that investment.