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Fabiola Cineas @ Vox · 05/08/2023 11:42 EDT

The rising Republican movement to defund public libraries

A library in Missouri, where state lawmakers in 2022 made it illegal to provide students with “sexually explicit” material and later tried to eliminate state funding for public libraries. | Shane Keyser/Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesLibraries bolster democracy. Republicans want to get rid of them. Editor’s note, May 8: On May 5, the Missouri legislature passed a budget that included $4.5 million in funding for public libraries. The original story, published before the budget was pas

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