Word: states
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...original budget package, approved by the House Committee of Ways and Means last week, contained some $130 million in spending cuts, $88.7 million in savings initiatives and $122 million in non-tax revenues. That package incorporated cuts in all branches of state government, including $25 million cuts in the higher education budget and $5.5 million in the Department of Education's budget...
Initiatives aimed at raising state revenue include a Medicaid reform package, a cap on additional benefits for welfare recipients and assessments of college trust funds...
Flaherty said the only two ways to realize the $330 million discrepancy are cuts in essential state programs or new revenue...
EVER since Barry M. Goldwater campaigned against Social Security in 1964 and lost in a 44-state landslide, America's largest government income maintenance program has also been its most politically secure. The image of poverty-stricken, elderly pensioners--not to mention the political wrath of well-organized and politically active senior citizens--has stifled criticism from even the most conservative politicians...
Acting with tacit approval from faculty and adminstrators, thousands of striking students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have brought the campus to a standstill this week protesting planned state cuts in education funding...