As unemployed workers seek to retrain at community colleges, state budget cuts are limiting the number of students that can enroll. As the Washington Post article "Workers seek new skills at community colleges, but classes are full" reports even as community college enrollments swelled because of the recession the majority of states cut their higher education budgets last year and most are planning to cut them next year as well. The result is that many individuals who want to learn new skills are prevented from doing so because of a lack of space at community colleges.