Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disgraced himself, and he has lent his party what must be considered a legitimate ? and respectable ? intellectual identity. He is for a small government that loves tough, and that ordinary folk get to participate in ? namely, for campaign finance reform. He is for fiscal conservatism (a balanced budget and low taxes) and social libertarianism. He has based a so-far-successful governorship on the idea that government can be better, smarter, smaller and more accessible ? that it can be reformed. And he has the credibility that any reformer needs; at a time when globalization has made America and its citizens...
...Democrats fine: Al Gore never misses a chance to denounce the G.O.P.'s "risky tax-cut scheme" and to promise that education and health care would have priority over tax cuts if the Democrats had their way. The only Democrat it may not suit is Clinton, for whom this budget is the last opportunity to get anything done that might count as a legacy...
Carol Seefeldt, a researcher on children's concepts of money at the University of Maryland, says that "if you want children to learn to make wise decisions and plan and budget, they need more than an allowance to do that." She suggests that parents involve kids in simple decisions involving the cost of meals and clothing and teach them to help comparison-shop for the family...
...that the budget deficit has morphed into a surplus, the Treasury's Bureau of Public Debt is in sore need of a new mission. Sure, the U.S. still has $5.6 trillion in obligations to manage. That'll keep it busy for a while. But things are different now that we're no longer spending more than we make. For one thing, the once vitally important U.S. savings-bond program seems ripe for attrition. Savings bonds finance only 4% of the national debt, down from more than 20% in their heyday, and officials are in deep discussion about how to keep...
...elder-care equation. Finding and retaining good caregivers is difficult now, and as the need grows, where are the workers to come from? If we want good care for our parents (and ourselves soon enough), we're going to have to pay for it. Instead of blowing the budget surplus on a big tax cut, we should find ways to invest in those who care for our vulnerable elders. Providing decent pay, training and benefits would be a start. JUDITH B. CLINCO, R.N., B.S. Catalina In-Home Services Inc. Tucson, Ariz...