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Federal budget cuts put hurt on South Florida's feeding programs
Looming federal budget cuts are putting a big squeeze on programs in South Florida that feed seniors. In Palm Beach County, about 240 daily breakfasts served to the elderly were cut about two weeks ago after $147,000 was lopped off a county program's...
Tags: Palm Beach County, Tamarac, Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Broward County
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Farming: 'I know it when I see it'
In the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart wrote a concurring opinion he hoped would establish a legal standard that protected every American’s right to free speech yet guarded “community standards”...Tags: Humana Incorporated, Economic Indicator, Orrin Hatch, Insurance, Political Corruption
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Morgan County schools face budget cuts after voters reject special levy
dan.dearth@herald-mail.comMorgan County (W.Va.) Schools officials will be forced to make budget cuts after taxpayers voted against renewing a levy that would have raised $5.86 million from July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2019, Morgan County Board of Education President David Ambrose...Tags: Finance, Elections, Economy, Business and Finance, Voting, Education
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Budget Cuts Threaten Real-Time Tracking Of Active Alaska Volcanoes
Channel 2 NewsSome volcanoes here in Alaska have been rumbling lately, but federal budget cuts may mean less real-time monitoring of those eruptions. Since 2008, the Alaska Volcano Observatory’s budget has been cut nearly in half, from 8-million dollars to just...Tags: U.S. Geological Survey, Budgets and Budgeting, Volcanoes, Volcanic Eruptions, Science and Technology
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U.S., world on brink of economic disaster
President Barack Obama recently took a salary cut. The Telegraph from England reported, "President Barack Obama has pledged to return $20,000 of his salary in a gesture of solidarity with government workers forced to take unpaid time off work due to...Tags: Barack Obama, Government, Budgets and Budgeting, Bethlehem Township (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), National Government
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Boehner: Bondholders should be paid first if debt limit breached
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John A. Boehner said holders of U.S. government bonds should be paid first if the nation's debt limit is breached, even if that means that China would get preference over the salaries of U.S. troops. Boehner (R-Ohio) defended...
Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Barack Obama, Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party, Washington, DC
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City wins in Glendale ranger lay-off case
Glendale has prevailed in federal court after a jury found the city’s decision to lay off two former parks officials was due to budget pressures, not, as alleged in a lawsuit, because the pair had complained about their boss. Russell Hauck and Eric...Tags: Trials, Layoffs and Downsizing, Budgets and Budgeting, Unemployment, Google Inc.
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More than 100 parents, students hold midday rally protesting Allentown school budget cuts
Long before they arrived at the Allentown School District administration building Monday, you could hear them coming along Hamilton Street — roughly 175 protesters, among them scores of children and teens who were, at that early afternoon hour,...
Tags: Allentown, Tom Corbett
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Lawrence Summers: 'Now is not the time for austerity'
The economics commentariat and no small part of the political debate have been consumed recently with the controversy surrounding the work of my Harvard colleagues (and friends) Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff. Their work had been widely interpreted as...Tags: Finance, Barack Obama, Economy, Business and Finance, Lawrence Summers, The Washington Post
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ACLU: Allentown School District walking a fine line in advising students
The day before an emotionally charged Allentown School Board meeting in March, Allen High School's student representatives were pulled into a meeting with an administrator many of them had never met. The message that Chief Academic Officer Tina...
Tags: Students, Separation of Church and State, Allentown, Ed Pawlowski, American Civil Liberties Union
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California tax revenue yields multibillion-dollar surplus
SACRAMENTO — California has been flooded with revenue this tax season and is on track to finish the fiscal year with a surplus of billions of dollars, according to officials. State coffers contain about $4.5 billion more than expected in...
Tags: Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Jerry Brown, Bob Blumenfield
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Europe has no exit
WASHINGTON -- For most Americans, Europe is out of sight and out of mind. We figure that the worst of its debt crisis has passed. Italy has a new government. To mute social unrest, some countries are slightly relaxing austerity policies. The European...
Tags: Finance, International Monetary Fund, Economy, Business and Finance, Unemployment, Money and Monetary Policy
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