“Of course” U.S. President Trump wants to strip away federal funding of libraries. Writing for The Nation, Sue Halpern argues that libraries provide the “raw materials of civic education.” They offer a “
space where everyone belongs.” And not only are libraries built on “the open and egalitarian promises of democracy;” libraries also exist to promote those promises. Cuts to libraries are consistent with Trump’s assault on immigration and democratic principles.
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