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Civic Engagement Paper

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For my civic engagement project I attended the State of the State Address hosted by Governor Andrew Cuomo. The event was held at SUNY Purchase and filled with many politicians, students, educators, reporters, and many other adults. You can feel the excitement in the room from everyone who wanted to hear what our Governor had to say about his agenda for this year. Once he came out on stage after being introduced, the crowd went wild everyone was happy to see him. He started off his speech trying to keep the positive environment that was already set; Governor Cuomo told everyone what the State of the State exactly was and told us about what our state has already accomplished. He brought up how we were the first big state to legalize marriage equality, paid family leave, and raising the minimum wage and now other states are following us across the nation. We were told also about unemployment rate decreasing from 8.4 to 5.1 and broke the myth that only democrats are big spenders showing the past governors both democratic and republic all spending a lot, but still within range of each other. Cuomo wanted to explain that the government was taking a big chunk of money out of our paychecks because the state at the time was spending more money than it was making. After explaining what was happening …show more content…

He created this plan with Senator Bernie Sanders and they called it The Excelsior Scholarship. 3.5 Million jobs will soon require a college education by 2024. The students in return will have to stay in New York for 2-4 years after they have graduated otherwise it will turn into a loan and the student will have to pay it back. It is estimated that the scholarship will help 1 million families. This first idea immediately got a standing ovation in the crowd because everyone deserves to get a higher

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