“They are funds that have been in place since the Johnson administration, so I’m turning 60 tomorrow, and these funds have been there pretty much my entire lifetime.”
Executive Director of the Literacy Center of West Michigan Dr. Wendy Falb says $7 billion in education funding has been impounded. That includes $729 million supporting adult education allocated by a previous Congress, or just over $600,000 of the center’s operating costs, making up about 25% of its budget.
“Our program here starts on July 1, and on July 2nd we learned that the federal government was clawing back those funds that we were all expecting.”…