{"id":8065,"date":"2019-03-13T12:18:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T12:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/13\/budget-cuts-threaten-afterschool-programs\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:19:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:19:43","slug":"budget-cuts-threaten-afterschool-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/budget-cuts-threaten-afterschool-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget cuts threaten afterschool programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Riley Institute&#8217;s Cathy Stevens and Eric Vanden Heuvel of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Green Bay (Wisconsin), author an opinion piece in digital magazine <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youthtoday.org\/2019\/03\/after-school-programs-too-important-needed-to-be-endangered-by-budget-cuts\/\">Youth Today<\/a><\/strong> about afterschool and summer programs. Citing 2018 survey data, the authors stress the need for increased investment in affordable non-school programs. Stevens, director of the White-Riley-Peterson Policy (WRP) Fellowship, and Vanden Heuvel, a 2018-19 WRP Policy Fellow, said, &#8220;<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">We\u2019ve seen firsthand that when students participate in afterschool and summer programming, they develop in-demand skills that will aid them their entire lives in school, college and the workplace.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Riley Institute&#8217;s Cathy Stevens and Eric Vanden Heuvel of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Green Bay (Wisconsin), author an opinion piece in digital magazine Youth Today about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}