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...undisputed upside to the current trend is that public-interest and legal-aid firms will finally receive some much needed help. Bob Glaves, executive director of the Chicago Bar Foundation, says these organizations are experiencing a "perfect storm" of dramatic cutbacks and an expanding need for services. "These groups desperately need assistance with a crisis of their own," says Glaves, whose organization is the charitable arm of the Chicago Bar Association. "Programs that help them and provide associates with real-world experience benefit everyone involved...
...costs of reinstating the laid-off janitors and to force the University to reconsider whether the money saved by the cuts was substantial enough to justify the lost jobs. Regardless of whether Harvard accepts the “stimulus,” Decker said, such a gesture of aid from the City would hopefully shame Harvard into realizing how unnecessary and immoral low-wage worker cuts are in light of its overall fiscal scheme...
...White House, however, seems cool to the idea of militarizing the border, especially since potential gringo military intervention is one of the key concerns Mexicans have about the Merida Initiative, a bilateral antidrug plan that began last year and is supposed to funnel almost $1.5 billion in U.S. aid to Mexico over three years...
...Chrysler say that they need $22 billion. Rattner calls it differently. He told Bloomberg, "It could be considerably higher, I won't deny that", when asked whether U.S. aid sought by the car companies could increase. "Like all management teams they tend to take a reasonably, slightly perhaps, optimistic, view of their business. So it could be more, I can't rule that...
...Obama's central theme is being tested. The discussion is now likely to return to the promise Obama made last month, when he told Congress that he was willing to "sacrifice some worthy priorities" to make his budget responsible. White House aides say that the president has already made significant sacrifices by scaling back his campaign promises in the current budget. To make the numbers balance under a rosier outlook, Obama shrunk the size of the "Make-Work-Pay" tax credit by 20%, to $800 per family. He slowed down his foreign aid spending plans, scrapped a plan to reduce...