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...interview last month, Smith said that the FAS administration has not made plans to implement “across-the-board staff cuts,” but he conceded that departments will face smaller budgets and “people may be cut because of changes...
White has tried to take advantage of a potential $11 billion state-budget shortfall, deriding Perry's support for a 5% across-the-board budget scrub as "Soviet-style" management. Unfortunately, his criticism of Perry's style was accompanied with a refusal to rule out tax increases - a position the Perry campaign pounced on. Perry pollster Mike Baselice says White's support for taxes, national health care reform and cap-and-trade legislation help define him as a "McGovern liberal...
While European Union officials have praised Greece's most recent round of austerity measures, many Greeks have been critical - and not just the protesters. Konstantinos Michalos, president of the Athens Chamber of Commerce, which represents more than 100,000 businesses, says the across-the-board salary cuts for civil servants would disproportionately hurt the poorest and lead to a decline in consumer spending. "The austerity package was necessary, but it's in the wrong direction," he says. "When the actual measures take effect, I think we will have even more demonstrations...
...tightening budgets are serious matters that have been approached with care and deliberation, we still argue that laying off teachers should not be a recourse for states strapped for cash. In this sense, the debate between seniority and merit need not take place, for there should be no across-the-board layoffs of teachers...
TIME asks, "where will jobs come from?" The U.S. had a $670 billion trade deficit in 2008. Those billions represent millions of jobs that have been exported. It's time to recognize that free trade doesn't work. Bring jobs back from overseas with a 20% across-the-board tariff on imports...