{"id":1587,"date":"2023-03-31T12:18:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2023-03-31T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:18:09","slug":"justin-yulo-city-college-of-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/justin-yulo-city-college-of-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Yulo, City College of NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230329_160507-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1588\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230329_160507-1.jpg 623w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230329_160507-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230329_160507-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m student here at City College New York and I think I can benefit from a free CUNY and more importantly other students can benefit from a free CUNY because the cost of going to university here, while CUNY is an affordable university, it is still pretty expensive for some, especially low income families. In my case I still have to take out student loans, in the 10,000s attending here, and even right now I still have to take a part time job just to pay for some of the expenses like the transport and travel with my metrocard and overall I think a free CUNY builds an important part of our society which is the next generation coming up and learning in such a prestigious university that boosts communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m student here at City College New York and I think I can benefit from a free CUNY and more importantly other students can benefit from a free CUNY because the cost of going to university here, while CUNY is an affordable university, it is still pretty expensive for some, especially low income families. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,170,9,106],"tags":[223,19,36,126],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-59","category-senate-district-36","category-school","category-city-college-of-ny","tag-part-time-job","tag-student-loans","tag-transit","tag-tuition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}