Nurse-training program on the block

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More hard choices coming up. These are only some of the first.

Chantal Kouoh’s voice cracked Tuesday as she said how disappointed she was to be shut out of a state-subsidized nurse-training program because of budget cuts.

“I feel like a part of my life is gone,” she said to an audience of other students, state legislators, journalists and nurse advocates at a press conference at the Legislative Office Building organized by District 1199, New England Health Care Employees Union.

“As a single mother with a very low income, I really can’t afford to go to a private program.”

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