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...into University Hall as FAS finance dean in early November, fresh from her stint as the State of Massachusetts’ head finance official under Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78. Kirwan comes on the heels of sweeping budget cuts across the FAS, which faces a remaining deficit of $110 million...
...interview with The Crimson earlier this month, Kirwan shied away from making definitive statements on how she plans to close the FAS deficit, emphasizing the need to meet with relevant constituents before professing any grand designs...
...secret that Michigan is enduring the most extreme effects of the nation's economic crisis: its unemployment rate stands at 15.3%, and the state is functioning on a temporary budget as legislators rush to close a $2.8 billion deficit. In recent years, the financial situation here has been so dire that Michigan has closed several detention facilities, reducing its prison population by thousands. Now, however, the state appears to be viewing prisoners in a different economic light - as a potential revenue generator...
...final passage of health-care reform. Republicans counter that that is precisely the problem. Not only is the move a transparent ploy to get physicians onboard the reform bill, said Senator Jon Kyl, the No. 2 Senate Republican, "I also see it as a transparent way to take the deficit off the table." Republicans have called the move a budget trick, one of many Democrats are using, they say, to help keep down the final price tag of the reform bill; they insist it actually costs more than $1.2 trillion over 10 years instead of the less than $900 billion...
...doctors' reimbursement issue from the broader health-care effort is removing a major expense, and headache, from an already very complicated process. But opponents of the fix aren't entirely consistent in their demand for fiscal discipline. Kyl, for one, doesn't object to running up the deficit to pay for a fix - he's working on an amendment to increase physicians' payments to keep up with the cost of living - he just doesn't like it in the context of a larger reform bill...