Word: deficits
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...billion-dollar shortfalls by proposing everything from taxing cell-phone ringtones to closing state parks. While Mississippi, Indiana and Delaware made the cutoff, others did not. Ohio and Connecticut will keep the lights on without an official budget in place, while California, which faces a $24 billion deficit, announced plans to issue IOUs until representatives can resolve a legislative stalemate...
...money supply has historically always motivated people to spend and end a recession. And I don't know if there's any evidence that fiscal stimulus has the same effect on people's habits. All that Obama's fiscal stimulus bill has achieved is to put an enormous fiscal deficit on the Federal Government. (See pictures of the dangers of printing money...
...that tighter fiscal constraint, Conrad said, any bill that passes under reconciliation would likely provide "dramatically less health reform." And the parliamentary hurdles are high. Opponents would have the power under Senate rules to strike every provision of the bill that cannot be shown to reduce the federal deficit. The result, Conrad said, could look like "Swiss cheese." (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...
...four-month decline of 22 percent that would mean sweeping budget cuts for Harvard's largest school. A stalwart presence at Smith's side during these cutbacks and layoffs, Sweet has served a crucial role in the FAS administration, which has found itself saddled with a $220 million annual deficit to close over the next two years...
...personnel attrition and the University's voluntary early retirement incentive program, are part of the $77 million of FAS budget cuts announced in May, Bradt said. But even after the recent downsizing and other service reductions, FAS, the University's largest school, still has a projected $143 million annual deficit that Smith says must be eliminated by fiscal year 2011. As a result, the School has now embarked on a process of "resizing and reshaping" its operations...