Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of his package presentation, the President slipped in the information that part of a $4 billion increase needed to augment the present defense budget of $75.5 billion was to be used to finance sending 45,000 more men to Viet...
...moderate" Negro leaders, they have come up with proposals that only recently might have struck many Americans as most immoderate. One such scheme is A. Philip Randolph's "Freedom Budget," originally proposed two years ago. It would wipe out the ghettos, provide a guaranteed annual income, increase spending on education, housing, vocational training and health services. The price tag: $185 billion over a ten-year period...
Founded by white and Negro social workers and philanthropists only a year after the N.A.A.C.P., the league's first job was to help the Negro migrants who were just beginning to pour from the fields of the South into the big cities of the North. Starting with a budget of $8,500, it provided travelers' aid, trained Negro social workers, conducted studies of social and economic condi tions among Negroes in the cities...
...Green Power." Today the league has affiliates in 84 cities, from San Diego to Springfield, Mass., Tampa, Fla., to Seattle. The budget has mushroomed to $3.5 million, while some 8,800 paid and volunteer league staffers administer foundation-and Government-funded projects that cost another $20 million...
Reagan insisted successfully that a $194 million debt left over from Democratic Governor Edmund Brown's ad ministration be paid off immediately rather than in installments. He sliced more than $43 million from the budget, based mainly on Brown's programs. When legislators complained at the loss of some of their pet projects, he compromised on some of his cuts, thereby had the $5.09 billion budget accepted with most of his economies intact. Reagan also won a partial victory on his campaign pledge to reduce property taxes by directing $148 million in state funds to local school boards...