There's a real worry that with the
cuts in music for young people - not just in school, where music
budgets have been
cut by # 16 million a year, but in local youth projects like the
Rock School in Harlow - music will increasingly become not a right for all but a privilege for the few.
Agencies under the UJA - Federation umbrella have lost a total of $ 6 million due to Paterson's veto of legislative earmarks known as member - item grants, the latest in eight cycles of
budget cuts that have
rocked the non-sectarian network of special education, child care, mental health, immigrant and other services, lowering revenue
by 5 to 7 percent, said Soloway.