Word: budgeteering
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...revived another concept from his grandfather - fraternity - which has translated into a menu of new initiatives aimed at building a more extensive welfare system. That, Hatoyama believes, will bolster consumer confidence and get Japanese, usually big-time savers, to spend more and revive economic growth. In the most recent budget, he has moved spending priorities away from the usual pork-barrel stimulus and toward social services like education. As he puts it, "We will be spending not on concrete but on people." In March, the Diet, Japan's parliament, passed legislation promised by Hatoyama to provide a $140 monthly subsidy...
...Life Committee had to cancel Wyclef Jean’s performance because of low ticket sales. In the wake of student protests and a $30,000 loss, the UC passed control of College-wide social event planning to the newly formed College Events Board. Backed by a $200,000 budget from the Dean’s Office, the CEB, in partnership with the Harvard Concert Commission, sponsored a successful Yardfest 2006 headlined by Ben Folds, with an audience of 7,000. Since 2006, the CEB has succeeded in balancing alternative and big-name bands, drawing 7,100 students...
...Columbia will celebrate Bacchanal, their annual spring concert. Three star performers—Ghostface Killah, glam rockers of Montreal, and Wiz Khalifa—will team up on the campus’s Low Plaza in Morningside Heights to kick off the party. According to The Columbia Spectator, budget restrictions have not hampered plans for fun: this year, three artists are somehow performing instead of the usual two. Also, the event is slated for an evening start instead of its usual afternoon beginning...
...protesters said they represented Hawaii's parents who have grown increasingly frustrated with the furloughs, which have given Hawaii the dubious distinction of having the U.S.'s shortest school year - 163 days. The furloughs are part of Lingle's solution to a projected budget deficit of nearly $1 billion. Liam Skilling says he and other protesters felt they needed to occupy the governor's office to make a stand because so many in the state were beginning to accept the furloughs as normal. "What we're fighting for now is so simply right," Skilling says. "We're fighting...
While the governor's office became the stage for much of the drama, state lawmakers worked to fund the education budget in order to do away with the furloughs. But negotiations that involved the governor, the teachers' union and the state board of education have gone nowhere. At one point, Lingle proposed $62 million to close the gap, but the union and board say that any solution will cost the state $92 million. The Democratic-controlled state legislature ends its 120-day session on April 29, but lawmakers fear that even if the funds are allotted, Lingle, a staunchly antiunion...