Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people are concerned about money being taken out of their wallets for any reason," explains pollster Mark Mellman. New Jersey leads the nation in average auto-insurance premiums ($1,169) and average property taxes ($3,864). Garden State voters are telling pollsters that these drags on the family budget are their No. 1 and No. 2 concerns...
...went only so far when he proposed his own reform of the IRS after the recent heartrending hearings. His plan called for the creation of 33 so-called citizens-advocacy panels, but he held firm against establishing a private-sector oversight board with power over IRS personnel, policy and budget decisions. In a West Wing meeting before the President's plan was made public, several aides insisted that the Administration not get backed into a corner defending an agency Americans love to hate. But Gene Sperling, the chairman of the President's National Economic Council, ended the discussion by invoking...
Reasons for the veto, an Administration spokesman explained, included concern that the project might violate the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, that it was a thinly disguised supplement to other Pentagon projects and more logically belonged in the NASA budget. Another--but unspoken--reason, say scientists familiar with the budget debate, is the "giggle factor," the tendency of many in government to scoff at the danger posed by asteroids...
...excellent schools, such as Baltimore's Canton Middle School (see box), flourishing even though 86% of its students fall below the poverty line. Nor do comparisons explain situations where schools spend more than they should. Last year, for example, Baltimore spent $125 million, or 20% of its total school budget, on 18,000 students identified as disabled, although many observers believe that about a third of these children aren't disabled at all--or at least wouldn't be if the school system had done its job properly in the first place...
...what has come to be called the Edison Project, Vaughn took a wager that only two other school districts in the country were prepared to risk at the time: he recommended that his board sign a contract permitting Edison to hire its own principal and teachers, manage its own budget and teach its own curriculum. In exchange the district would pay Edison about $3,600 a child, roughly the same amount it spends on its other 48,000 students. If Edison educated the children for less money, it could pocket the difference as profit. In return, Edison guaranteed improvement...