Budget Crisis

School District Considers Shutting Down Every Other Monday

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Video, Minnesota Schools, Federal Education Funding, State Budget Crisis, State and Local Government, Business News, Burnesville Minnesota, Burnesville Minnesota School District, Budget Crisis, Education Funding, Education Funding Cuts, Business News

Snow days are so passé. Now it's all about budget cut days. Yes, faced with budget woes, the Burnsville School district is considering giving its ...

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John Celock

State Budget Crisis Closes Courts

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Ron Keefover, State Budgets, Video, Kansas Supreme Court, Kansas Courts, Kansas Politics, Kansas Budget, State and Local Government, Sam Brownback, Sam Brownback Kansas, Budgets, Laura Kelly, Lawton Nuss, Budget Crisis, Politics News

Kansas state courts will shut down for five Fridays this spring to save money in a state budget crisis that includes a $1.4 million hole in the court ...

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Stating the State: Jerry Brown Gets Disciplined and Lays It Out

William Bradley | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: High-Speed Rail, 2012 Elections, California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Budget Crisis, Jerry Brown, Los Angeles News
William Bradley

Straighten out the chronic crisis of the present and move the state forward into the future. That's Jerry Brown's mission as governor of California this time around, which he laid out rather clearly in his new State of the State address.

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Cuts in Education: A Failing Choice

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Education, Budget Cuts, Budget, Budget Deficit, Public Education, Budget Crisis, Summer Learning, Education Cuts, Summer Learning Loss, Learning Loss, Learning, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

We still talk about public education as the great equalizer and pathway out of poverty, but continue to fall far short in assuring millions of poor children upward mobility.

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Federal Employees Paid Less Than Private Sector

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 01.07.2012

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Federal workers make more than a quarter less than private sector employees doing similar jobs, according to a recent study. Federal employees mak...

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Be Careful What You Cut

William C. Baker | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Farm Bill, Super Committee, Budget Cuts, Water Pollution, Chesapeake Bay, 2008 Farm Bill, Conservation Incentives, Budget Crisis, Pollution, Chesapeake Region, DC News
William C. Baker

At a time when the Bay states are asking farmers to do more to reduce pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay, there is danger that conservation incentives secured for Bay farmers in the last Farm Bill will be greatly reduced.

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Business Must Step Up to Solve the Budget Challenge

Gary Shapiro | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Consumer Electronics Association, Supercommittee, Federal Budget Deficit, Cea, Occupy Wall Street, Budget Crisis, Business News
Gary Shapiro

Time is running out on the United States as the world's economic leader. That's why we need a business-led grand plan.

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Sending Kids the Bill for the Mess Left By Wall Street

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Education, Budget Crisis, Economic Recession, Education News
Robert L. Borosage

Wall Street's excesses blew up the economy. Now the question is who pays to clean up the mess. Across the country, our children are already paying part of the bill -- as their schools are hit with deep budget cuts.

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U.S. Will Make Major Foreign-Aid Cuts For First Time In Decades

The New York Times | Posted 12.04.2011

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WASHINGTON — America’s budget crisis at home is forcing the first significant cuts in overseas aid in nearly two decades, a retrenchment that offi...

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What Our Founding Fathers Didn't Know Might Help Us

Edward Muzio | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Government, Politics, Leadership, Teamwork, Group Dynamics, Group Work, Budget Crisis, Organization, Thought Leadership, Politics News
Edward Muzio

We may want to update some of our old processes with our new knowledge. To that end, I humbly offer four truths of human interaction that are only about fifty years old.

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Saving New York City in 1975: Carey Could Teach Congress Today

Robert L. Dilenschneider | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Governor Carey, Congress, Public-Private Partnership, Debt Crisis, Super Committee, Budget Crisis, New York City, New York Economy, Economy, New York Economic Crisis, Politics News
Robert L. Dilenschneider

The nation's current crisis mirrors the situation 36 years ago when New York City teetered near financial collapse, unable to borrow from a banking community that correctly believed the city was broke.

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Republicans Cry "Class Warfare" All the Way to the Bank

Lennard Davis | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Class Warfare, Democrats, Budget Crisis, President Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Lennard Davis

It is ironic that Republicans, who always deny that class exists in the US ("We're all middle-class, right?), should cry "class warfare" in every election. If you don't believe in class -- how could there be class warfare?

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Pass The American Jobs Acts For A Stronger, More Moral America

Rev. Chuck Currie | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: 2012 Elections, Unemployment, Mitch McConnell, Unemployment Crisis, Elections 2012, Congress, American Jobs Act, Barack Obama, Labor, Religion and Politics, Christianity, Obama American Jobs Act, Budget Crisis, Christianity in America, Christian Social Justice, Religion News
Rev. Chuck Currie

It is time to change course and embrace a vision of America where no one is left behind. Creating jobs now will lower the unemployment rate, reduce poverty and instill hope for the future.

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Time for Sunshine in Sacramento

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Debt, California, Economic Crisis, Sacramento, Reform, Bipartisan, Budget Crisis, Gridlock, Los Angeles, California Legislature, Unemployment, Open Records Act, Open Government, Sunshine Laws, California Assembly, Los Angeles Times, Initiative, Tea Party, Portantino, Los Angeles News
Hoyt Hilsman

Would you believe that, after the recent scandals in California around illegal compensation and government secrecy, the California legislature is keeping the budgets of legislators and legislative committees secret?

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Super Congress Vs. Justice League

Robert Brenner | Posted 10.08.2011

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Robert Brenner

In their secret underground headquarters, far beneath Capital Hill, the Super Congress gathers to deliberate...

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How to Cut Hundreds of Billions in War Spending

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Budget, Lobbyists, Super Congress, War Spending, Defense Spending, Brave New Foundation, Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, Budget Crisis, Politics News
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe

The debt limit crisis that's consumed Washington, D.C. created an unexpected silver lining: the first opportunity in a decade to make real cuts to our runaway military budget.

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Don't Nuke the Budget!

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 09.27.2011

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Harvey Wasserman

Slashing social services, environmental protection and so much more to pay for new nuclear plants is not the way to a sustainable green-powered Earth.

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What Would God Say About The Budget Crisis?

Beth Green | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Budget Crisis, Federal Budget Deficit, Budget, Spiritual Approach to Budget Deficit, Healthy Living Health News, Consciousness, Healthy Living Spirit, Healthy Living News
Beth Green

Isn't it true that when we turn to God, most of us are asking God to fix our problems rather than to help us become more conscious of what we need to do?

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Teachers' New Day Jobs

Dennis Danziger | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Public Schools, California State Legislaure, Epilepsy, Public Health, Teachers, Budget Crisis, Consumer Protection, United Teachers of LA, Education News
Dennis Danziger

The California State Assembly voted 7 to 1 in favor of putting non-medical professionals, people like me, in charge of life or death medical situations. Exactly who are they protecting?

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GOP-Style Dems Moving to Sell Out Poor, Liberals: Lessons From the DC Budget Fight

Art Levine | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Budget Crisis, Disabled, Gop, Poverty, Homeless, Media, Republicans, Budget Cuts, Democrats, Politics News
Art Levine

It's been less than two weeks since a guerilla campaign by local activists managed to restore about 20 percent from $131 million in budget cuts targeting Washington, D.C.'s neediest residents.

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Metropiltan Museum Of Art Announces Admission Fee Hikes

nytimes.com | RANDY KENNEDY | Posted 08.03.2011

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, facing what it calls a "number of daunting, ongoing budgetary challenges," has decided to raise its suggested admissio...

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In California the Battle To Save Higher Education Continues

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: For-Profits, California State University, Governor Jerry Brown, Budget Cuts, Public Higher Education, Univeristy of Phoenix, Budget Crisis, California Democrats, Democrats, California Politics, State Senator Ted Gaines, Wall Street, GOP 5, Kaplan, California Faculty Association, Republicans, California Political News, College News
Joseph A. Palermo

The budget constraints have led the CSU administration to put into overdrive its business model for higher education, to treat education like a "business," like a "product" that is "delivered" to a "customer."

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2011 Budget Battle: Obama Wins While Democrats Lose

Bob Burnett | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Budget Cuts, John Boehner, Budget, 2011 Budget, Speaker Boehner, President Obama, Budget Crisis, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bob Burnett

Although both sides claimed victory after agreeing on a 2011 Federal budget minutes before the April 8th deadline, it was a smashing win for Republicans and a huge loss for Democrats.

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Cutting Spending Is Not the Only Way To Cut the Deficit

Steven Cohen | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: President Obama Administration, Tea Party, Taxation, Federal Deficit, Tax Day Tea Party, House of Representatives, John Boehner, Budget Crisis, Paul Ryan, Politics News
Steven Cohen

The deficit is a major problem for America. But there are two parts to the problem. One part is waste in government. The second is insufficient revenue. We are under-taxed, especially our corporations and our rich.

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Don't Negotiate When You Are Not in a Negotiation

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Budget Crisis, Politics News, Social Security, Government Shutdown, Welfare, Budget, Budget Cuts, Barack Obama, Politics News
Howard Steven Friedman

While it would be refreshing to see The Great Compromiser inform the Republican Party that he won't sign any declarations of war against American's middle class and poor, I wouldn't bet on it unless his pollsters tell him it will help his 2012 odds.

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