Budget Cuts
Cut BP aid, not Pell Grants! students demand
March 7, 2011Student activists and advocates say congressional lawmakers need to get their budget priorities straight especially when it comes to making cuts to federal funding for higher education.
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Mayors warn cuts to block grants will cost jobs
March 1, 2011Mayors around the country are reacting with alarm to the cuts proposed for the Community Development Block Grant program.
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Video: The Windy City protests federal housing cuts
February 28, 2011On Friday close to one thousand Chicagoans turned out at the Illinois State Office Building hopping mad about planned federal budget cuts proposed for HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development).
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GOP budget would close Social Security offices
February 28, 2011If Republicans have their way with the federal budget it would close Social Security offices across the country.
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Shop Talk: saving jobs, preventing disasters and more
January 22, 2011Not paid at all for three pay periods, 3,750 jobs saved at Kansas City plant, Union credited with saving 700 jobs in Indiana, He wants working families to pay, Coal mine disaster 'preventable'
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