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...Harvard University Police Department representative at the meeting said HUPD would prioritize safety over convenience, citing the risks associated with installing an ATM in a residential area, which include increased foot traffic and public access. While ATM providers, including Bank of America, told Quad students leading the effort that budget woes would prevent them from installing an ATM, at least one bank—Harvard University Credit Union—has said it would provide the ATM at its own expense. Tamar Holoshitz ’10, chair of the Undergraduate Council’s Student Affairs Committee, said Quad...
...intends to inflate its way out of debt? Obama's aides say they can do that by winding down the war in Iraq, cutting fat and raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans--and, later, by entitlement reform. All during the campaign, Obama talked about going through the budget "line by line," zeroing out programs that don't work or have outlived their usefulness. Even as he signed the stimulus bill, he had already pivoted to the next message. "We will need to do everything in the short term to get our economy moving again," he said, "while at the same...
...everyone knows that while eliminating earmarks and cutting fat sounds good and plays well, it cannot alone address the deficit problem when discretionary spending amounts to less than 40% of the total budget. The only chance Obama will have to build confidence in the economy, even as he digs a deeper deficit hole in the next two years, is to convince Americans and the world that he's laying the foundation for long-term budget control through entitlement reform and, in particular, curbing the cost of health care. Total U.S. health-care spending in 2007 rose to $2.2 trillion...
Sitting in an armchair in his enormous Eisenhower Building office overlooking the West Wing, Orszag unspools the argument he has made for years, first as a scholar at the Brookings Institution and then as head of the Congressional Budget Office. No long-term budget plan can get around the massive surge in costs that comes with rising medical-care prices and the aging of the baby boomers. "If health-care costs grow at the same rate over the next four decades as they did over the past four decades, you're up to 20% of gross domestic product...
...hopes of receiving funding from the stimulus package, and Cambridge was no different. According to City Councillor Craig A. Kelley, Cambridge has a large list of projects that require funding—including street work, sewer reconstruction, and a renovation of Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School. Cambridge budget director David J. Kale said that the financial stimulus will “take pressure off local revenues” since projects will be able to move forward without drawing from city dollars. Around Cambridge, various organizations that have suffered during the economic downturn expressed the hope that the stimulus plan...