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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's stated goal of closing the Department of Education comes after a long Republican-led push to chip away at the agency's funding and influence ...
Job and budget cuts are becoming more widespread. A school district in Arlington, Texas announced plans to cut more than 250 positions at the end of the school year.
The Senate’s proposal stays true to that amount and then proposes a $3 per student cut in the 2024-2025 school year. Instead, the Senate’s plan adds $49.6 million in a different account that ...
The Congressional Budget Office has consistently reported that tax cuts do not pay for themselves; they increase the deficit relative to a policy baseline without the tax cut. For example, CBO estimated in June 2012 that the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 (EGTRRA and JGTRRA) added about $1.6 trillion to the debt between 2001 and 2011, excluding ...
More than 200 teachers and residents packed the Lincoln Park Board of Education after news of a budget crisis that may lead to staff cuts.
The budget cuts funding for energy programs by over 50% reducing the funding by $2.4 billion. Energy programs cut include: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Nuclear Energy, Fossil Energy Research and Development. [15] [16] Department of Health and Human Services: $65.1 billion $−15.1 billion ...
By 2017, National Public Radio reported state lawmakers were seeking to close a $900 million budget gap, [2] [Note 2] following nine previous budget cuts. [46] Earlier efforts to close budget gaps had left Kansas "well below national averages" in a wide range of public services from K-12 education to housing to police and fire protection.
State legislators in Washington state have a big budget challenge ahead of them. If they want to know why, they should look in the mirror. When the Evergreen State’s legislative session opens ...