Word: payments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financial stress worsened dramatically in April last year when city assets were temporarily frozen after East St. Louis failed to begin payment on a $3.4 million judgment arising from the beating of one local jail inmate by another in 1984. The city is now beset with dozens of lawsuits. Firemen have sued successfully to collect three years of back uniform allowances, only to be told that the award left no money in the till to pay their salaries. A bill making its way through the state legislature will erase the deficit in the current budget and finally...
Harvard, the mayor explains, often gets a free ride from the city. Most of the University's vast land holdings in Cambridge are exempt from municipal taxes. Even with its large voluntary payment in lieu of taxes, Harvard pays the city less than a private landowner would...
...problem with Medicaid as a health care program for the poor is that it is a health care program for the poor. Recipients are stigmatized and often embarrassed to participate in the system. Doctors, receiving lower rates of payment, often provide a lower quality of care. And the federal government has a ready-made whipping boy should the budget deficit need a trim. Very few speak out for Medicaid on Capitol Hill...
...number of state offices and commissions from 150 to seven. Confronted by a $230 million deficit and a scandalous $280 million loss in state pension funds, he persuaded lawmakers to raise taxes on groceries and gasoline. He introduced an innovative health- cost-containment plan for state employees, arranged for payment of West Virginia's debts and put through his own radical restructuring of the state's education system, including larger pay increases to teachers and new bonds for school construction...
Councillors William H. Walsh and John O'Brian, the hospital's chief administrator, told councillors that the payment is the first of several that will provide the Cambridge Hospital with the majority of the money it is owed by July 1. O'Brian said he is expecting another $2.4 million from the state by mid to late June...