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Lead Poisoning Threshold Lowered By CDC, Five Times More Children Now Considered At Risk

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.16.2012

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The number of children considered at risk of lead poisoning jumped by more than five-fold on Wednesday, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...

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Federal Government Money Is Not The Best Way To Fund The Arts

Ian David Moss | Posted 05.03.2012

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Arts lovers: go ahead and write your letters to Congress asking for level funding, that 6% increase, or whatever you want. But once federal funding becomes less of a joke, it may well become more of a headache.

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Federal Government Money Is The Best Way To Fund The Arts

Carla Escoda | Posted 05.01.2012

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Reallocating a tiny portion of the defense budget to fund tours for American performing arts companies to strategically important countries makes them a potent weapon in the battle to win hearts and minds.

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Why Are We Letting Local Governments Go Broke?

Steven Cohen | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Government Budget Cuts, Great Recession, Local Government, State and Local Government, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Budget Cuts, Municipal Bankruptcy, Government Funding, Government Employees, Politics News

We've experienced a three-decade long attack on government. While this may have had the effect of constraining unchecked power, it has also started to destroy critical government capacities. This has been especially true at the local level.

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Advice to Fundraisers: Go West (and East and South)

Michael Kaiser | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Arts Management, Arts Managers, Puritans, Arts, Government Funding, European Union, Fundraising, Fundraisers, Non Profits, Arts News

As country after country announces substantial cuts in government arts funding -- and the economic challenges the EU is now facing should only hasten this trend there -- the need to develop more sophisticated knowledge of fundraising techniques is only going to grow.

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Dems See Big Wins In Disinfected Government Spending Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.19.2011

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UPDATE - House Republicans are threatening to reject the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance extension deal approved by the Senate, according t...

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Government Shutdown Odds Change

AP | DAVID ESPO and ALAN FRAM | Posted 02.15.2012

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WASHINGTON — Senate leaders agreed on compromise legislation Friday night to extend Social Security payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits for tw...

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Budget Cut Hazes Hope

Paul Ruth | Posted 02.05.2012

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As much as politicians say that they are working for America's workforce, they are losing not only people who work for Focus: HOPE, but failing the students who would have been educated by their job training.

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Rifts In GOP At Play In Passage Of Spending BIll

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 01.18.2012

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WASHINGTON — Congress has sent President Barack Obama a bipartisan spending bill that averts a federal shutdown, but widespread Republican defec...

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Government Funding Measure To Avoid Shutdown Announced

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 01.15.2012

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WASHINGTON — House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a bundle of spending measures for the ongoing budget year, blending cuts to NASA and co...

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Government Shutdown Averted -- Again (For Now)

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 12.04.2011

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WASHINGTON — The House passed a spending bill Tuesday to fund the government for six weeks, delaying a series of battles over spending and polic...

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House Poised To Pass Government Funding Bill, Avert Shutdown

Posted 12.04.2011

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By ANDREW TAYLOR, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- The House has passed a short-term spending bill that keeps the government running for six weeks an...

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Congress Passes Stopgap Spending Bill To Avert Government Shutdown

AP | By ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 11.29.2011

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By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- A nearly empty House on Thursday passed a stopgap spending measure to avert a government shutdown ...

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Nearly All Democrats Buck Vote In Protest Of Paying For Disaster Aid

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 11.21.2011

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UPDATE: 6 p.m. -- The House on Wednesday failed to pass a continuing resolution to keep the federal government funded past next week, a major defeat f...

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House Democrats Vow To Vote Against Stopgap Spending Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- House Democrats are being urged to vote against a bill on Wednesday to continue funding the government, putting it one step closer to a ...

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Eric Cantor: Congress Will Pass Continuing Resolution To Avoid Government Shutdown

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.07.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Congress will take up a continuing resolution to fund the government on the week of Sept. 19, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) ...

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Facing the Music

Susanne Mentzer | Posted 10.21.2011

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Let's face it. With the stock markets yo-yoing and Congress behaving as it is, the arts are a pretty low priority in the short haul. Relying on government funding seems to be a losing proposition and has been for some time.

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Nancy Pelosi: 'You Won't See A Repetition Of Last Week' With Government Funding

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 10.04.2011

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WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is attempting to lay a tougher line against funding cuts, telling reporters on Thursday th...

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A Most Unstable Summer

Michael Kaiser | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Arts Management, Strategic Planning, Arts Budgets, Arts, Government Funding, DeVos Institute, Fundraising, Fellows, Fellowship, Kennedy Center, Arts News

Virtually every American arts organization is dealing with the residual effects of several years of deep recession, but many of my international Fellows are dealing with far more difficult and dangerous situations.

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Mike Pence: Spending Deal 'Probably Not Good Enough' To Vote For

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 06.10.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), a leading conservative House Republican, said Sunday he will likely vote against a budget deal to cut about $3...

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GOP Policy Leader: Boehner Will Need Dems To Pass Funding Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 06.08.2011

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This story has been updated. WASHINGTON -- A deal has been reached to keep the federal government running, but not all House Republicans are please...

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Reid: GOP Culture Wars Will Shut Down The Government

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 06.07.2011

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With reporting by Jon Ward WASHINGTON -- A government shutdown is beginning to look inevitable, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warned Thursday mor...

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A Look Inside The Budget Negotiations

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.07.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Congressional and Obama administration negotiators worked at the White House until nearly 2 a.m Thursday morning in an effort to finaliz...

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WATCH: Howard Fineman Discusses The Politics Of A Government Shutdown

Huff TV | Posted 06.06.2011

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HuffPost's Howard Fineman appeared on 'The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell' Wednesday night to discuss the politics of a government shutdown. "I th...

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Government Shutdown: Obama Announces Progress But No Budget Deal After White House Meeting

AP/The Huffington Post | By DAVID ESPO | Posted 06.06.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- With time growing short, President Barack Obama said Wednesday night that he remains confident that a government shutdown can be av...

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