The cartoon's caption on the kid's book bag says "state budget cuts" and the boy's shirt says education.The cartoon is using the boy and the heavy book bag to show how big the state budget cuts will be for education. The artist is trying to say that cutting spending on education will affect students/teachers causing a strain, using the heavy book bag as an example. The cartoonist is obviously not in favor of the budget cuts.
Pennsylvania's governor Corbett recently proposed the nation's biggest cuts of state funding of local school districts and public four-year colleges by 50%, which would increase many PA universities' tuition. He is doing this instead of taxing the gas drilling industries.
Good cartoon choice :)
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