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• in Business
  Post Office 2012: Slower Mail, Fewer Workers, Higher Cost
  The United States postal service undergoes organizational overhaul as it implements cutbacks.
  by aliciaraya / on Dec 7, 2011
• in Politics
  Oakland Plans Closure of Most of Their Libraries
  Only 4 of 18 Libraries to Remain Open in May if Proposal Passes
  by daretoeatapeach / on Jun 16, 2011
• in Politics
  As Dollar Plummets, Deficit Spending Still a Reality
  Despite looming fiscal troubles, Washington bureaucrats still see deficit spending as a viable option.
  by kapitalcon / on May 18, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “budget cuts”

 

• SNAP Challenge Highlights Impact Of Cuts To Food Stamps

  
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  A poster at a St. Petersburg, Fla. grocery indicates that food stamps are accepted as payment. (Photo/Fith World Art via Flickr) As Republicans push a farm bill that could cut more than $20 billion from nutrition assistance programs supporting 46 million low-income Americans, a coalition of Democratic lawmakers, led ...
  15 hours ago

• Veterans livid over “shameful” WI GOP limits on disabled vets tax credits

  
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  • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email Leave it to those compassionate, caring, reachy-outy Republicans to enrage disabled veterans. That takes real talent. In Wisconsin, the GOP has the upper hand in the legislature, as well as in the ...
  5 days ago

• IRS second furlough day is Friday, June 14, closing tax agency offices nationwide and leaving e-filing offline

  
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  If youre planning on efiling a tax document, you might want to get to it today. The Internal Revenue Service is facing another furlough day tomorrow, Friday, June 14. All IRS employees will stay at home that day without pay in order for the agency to meet sequestration budget cuts. Yep, for the second time ...
  5 days ago

• Economy Update: China Slows, Europe Contracts, Global Trade Protectionism Surges, Central Banks Mull Pulling The Plug!!! Dennis Gartman: ‘These Are Very Scary Times’

  
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  World Bank Cuts Global Outlook as China Slows; Asian Stocks Fall The World Bank cut its global growth forecast for this year after  emerging markets  from China to  Brazil  slowed more than projected, while budget cuts and slumping investor confidence deepened Europe’s contraction. The world economy will ...
  5 days ago

• For the Record: Tax Increases Are Harmful, but Europe Has Pursued Them Anyway

  
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  Dr. Salim Furth at a Senate Budget Committee Hearing. Heritage economist Salim Furth gave testimony last week to the Senate Budget Committee, reminding the Senators that economic research shows that deficit reduction should be pursued through spending cuts, not tax increases. Now he has responded to written ...
  5 days ago

• Cancer flourishing. Capitalism regenerating…

  
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  Cancer clinics across the country have begun turning away thousands of Medicare patients, blaming the sequester budget cuts. [ 1 ] The economy will some day thrive again. And no one will remember the dead. This is how capitalism “regenerates it self”. Forgetting is the key in all human processes. Unfortunately.
  5 days ago

• Can You Live on $4.50/day? 20 Congressional Leaders, Staff Join Food Stamp Challenge

  
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  by Pamela Powers Hannley Could you live on a $4.50/day food stamp allotment? Rep.  Jim McGovern , who has been  leading the charge to stop billions of dollars of cuts to the food stamp program  (SNAP), will begin a  food stamp challenge  tomorrow, June 13, to draw attention to the plight of the poor  and ...
  6 days ago

• Greece Downgraded From Developed Country Thanks To Economic Woes

  
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  Late on Tuesday evening, MSCI Inc., an investment index provider, announced that it was moving Greece from its “Developed Markets” index to “Emerging Markets.” That is the first time the company has downgraded a country from developed to emerging market since it launched the emerging markets index in 1987, ...
  6 days ago

• Federal Defender Wants Out Of Terrorism Case Due To Budget Cuts

  
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  Samuel Richard Rubin says budget and sequester cuts mean he just can’t afford to take on a complex case involving an Uzbek national who is facing charges in two states. » E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us News
  6 days ago

• Hospital CEO: N.C. budget cuts, tax-exemption changes threaten hospitals

  
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  The CEO of Carolinas HealthCare System complained Tuesday of "potentially devastating" budget cuts under consideration by the North Carolina legislature, arguing that lawmakers should not "correct their budget on the back of hospitals," the  Charlotte Observer  reported. read more
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• Fighting N-I-M-B-Y-ism In The Enforcement of the False Claims Act

  
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  06/09/2013 // Justice News Flash: Featured Column // Kathleen Scanlan // (press release) According to the Oxford English Dictionary the term N-I-M-B-Y was first used in 1980 and was an acronym for the phrase “Not in My Back Yard.” It was a negative way to describe people who conceded the potential benefit to ...
  6 days ago

• Misplaced Congressional Priorities: Pork for the Pentagon but Not for Children

  
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  by Pamela Powers Hannley During the Bush II Era, excessive deficit spending was no big deal for Republicans. Congressional Republicans like Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl, John McCain, Jeff Flake, Lindsay Graham, and even current “budget hawk” Paul Ryan “spent money like drunken sailors”– particularly when the ...
  6 days ago

• No Labels Bipartisan Coalition Set To Introduce Legislation On Government Waste

  
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  U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider (D, IL-10)  was recently the 70th elected official to join a bipartisan coalition of congressional delegates attempting to build trust across the aisle. The group of lawmakers, called the  Problem Solvers , plan to unveil their first package of bills, which will address government waste, by ...
  1 week ago

• Terminations for Convenience and Their Related Settlement Proposals – June 19

  
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  Terminations for convenience are possible on all prime government contracts and most subcontracts.  While used sparingly in the past, terminations for convenience are likely to become more prevalent thanks to sequestration and the impending budget cuts.  Contractors facing a termination for convenience must quickly ...
  1 week ago

• Paul Krugman has a message for policy-makers: "Where we are is not O.K. Stop shrugging, and do your jobs"

  
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  "For more than three years some of us have fought the policy elites damaging obsession with budget deficits, an obsession that led governments to cut investment when they should have been raising it, to destroy jobs when job creation should have been their priority. That fight seems largely won -- in fact, I dont ...
  1 week ago

• Paul Krugman has a message for policy-makers: "Where we are is not O.K. Stop shrugging, and do your jobs"

  
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  Patrick Chappatte [ click to enlarge ] "For more than three years some of us have fought the policy elites damaging obsession with budget deficits, an obsession that led governments to cut investment when they should have been raising it, to destroy jobs when job creation should have been their priority. That fight ...
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• Sequester Forces NOAA Satellite Cuts To Save Weather Jobs

  
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  There has been mounting concern over the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s mandatory furloughs of National Weather Service employees amidst increasingly severe weather. As a result, NOAA has reportedly submitted a plan to Congress that would restore the jobs at the expense of its weather satellites. ...
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• Sequester Forces NOAA Satellite Cuts To Save Weather Jobs

  
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  There has been mounting concern over the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s mandatory furloughs of National Weather Service employees amidst increasingly severe weather. As a result, NOAA has reportedly submitted a plan to Congress that would restore the jobs at the expense of its weather satellites. ...
  1 week ago

• Why S&P’s Debt Outlook Shouldn’t Keep Congress From Dropping Austerity

  
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  Nearly two years after issuing the first-ever downgrade of its rating on U.S. debt, Standard & Poor’s upgraded its outlook on America’s credit from negative to stable. Monday’s announcement signals the ratings agency believes a further downgrade is unlikely in the near term, despite the declining ...
  1 week ago

• Dozens of Medically Fragile Students Informed That Portland Isn’t Obligated to Educate Them

  
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  Dozens of Medically Fragile Students Informed That Portland Isn’t Obligated to Educate Them :
  1 week ago

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