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Some Facts about CUNY students:
46% of all college students in NY attend CUNY
23% Support children
63% attend full time
62% are female
35% are 25 years and older
48% have a native language other than English
48% work 20+ hours per week  http://web.cuny.edu/about/index.html)

The following excerpt is from the newspaper REVOLUTION by CUNY
Internationalist Clubs, U.S.
section of the League for the Fourth International

Students and Labor: Shut NYC Down!:

MARCH 5 – Since September, students at the City University of New York
(CUNY), along with “part time” adjunct teachers, have been fighting
against threatened tuition increases, budget cuts and layoffs. This
struggle has reached a crucial point. Demo­cratic governor David
Paterson’s budget for 2009-2010 includes a tuition increase of $600 a
year or more at four-year colleges, and $300 at CUNY community
colleges, which are already some of the most expensive in the country.

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