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Last week’s CBO report popped a big hole in the Austerians’ entitlement cuts balloon. The CBO cut its deficit projection for the next decade by $ 200 billion, with this year’s deficit shrinking to $ 642 billion, the smallest shortfall since 2008. A relatively huge chunk of that decrease—$ 900 billion—is in Medicare and Medicaid [...]
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Medicare and Medicaid spending projection cut by $900 billion
Posted by admin on May 21st, 2013
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No Comments »Opinion: I’d Say My Least Favorite Part About Being A Restroom Attendant Is Spending 8 Hours A Day In A Room Where People Defecate (by Benjamin Canfield)
Posted by admin on May 14th, 2013
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Health care spending slowdown saving nation up to $770 billion
Posted by admin on May 7th, 2013
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: $770 billion, care, Health, Nation, Saving, slowdown, spending' No Comments »Hill aides: White House recalculates spending cuts
Posted by admin on May 3rd, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House budget office is recalculating how to apply automatic spending cuts for a handful of agencies, freeing up almost $ 4 billion for the Pentagon and another $ 1 billion or so for Homeland Security Department and NASA. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
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Posted by admin on May 2nd, 2013
“Detroit has agreed to spend nearly $ 14 million since December to contract nine firms to provide a range of financial and legal services to help the city overcome its staggering deficit and costly long-term liabilities.” the Detroit Free Press reports. Tweet This Post
Per-student pre-K spending lowest in decade
Posted by admin on April 29th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — State funding for pre-kindergarten programs had its largest drop ever last year and states are now spending less per child than they did a decade ago, according to a report released Monday. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
American Voices: Global Military Spending Declines
Posted by admin on April 16th, 2013
Overall spending on militaries worldwide fell to $ 1.75 trillion in 2012, down 0.5 percent from the previous year and marking the first recorded drop in global military spending since 1998. The Onion Tweet This Post
Democrats Risk Alienating Young Voters by Opposing Cuts in Entitlement Spending
Posted by admin on April 16th, 2013
My National Journal colleague Ron Brownstein wrote a column for last week’s magazine that I thought was the most important piece of the week. In it, he argues that “large portions of the Democratic base still don’t understand the political and economic dynamics of the party’s changing electoral coalition.” Brownstein is absolutely right. Politics News [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: alienating, cuts, Democrats, entitlement, Opposing, risk', spending', voters, Young No Comments »President Obama officially unveils budget to raise taxes and cut spending, including Social Security
Posted by admin on April 10th, 2013
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: Budget, Including, Obama, officially, President, Raise, Security, social, spending', taxes, unveils No Comments »President Obama officially unveils budget to raise taxes and cut spending, including Social Security
Posted by admin on April 10th, 2013
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