Budget Cuts – Page 5 – People's World

Shocking new cuts will gut Chicago schools

June 21, 2013 By John Bachtell

After closing 50 schools, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools are cutting elementary and high school budgets tens of millions of dollars.

Colorado fires blaze on as workers rush to fight them

June 18, 2013 By Blake Skylar

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service an out of money to pay for firefighting equipment this year, after Congress only provided half of the total sum of money it has cost to fight wildfires so...

Only one place to cut: Pentagon

May 8, 2013 By Judith Le Blanc

There is a smart, good, and doable solution. We must move the money to invest in programs that will create jobs and turn the economy around.

Workers say city services are vital to public safety

April 4, 2013 By Marilyn Bechtel

City workers gathered in front of City Hall April 2 with a message for City Council members starting to discuss a new two-year budget.

Sequester cuts mean idle planes, poultry plants and VA offices, says AFGE

March 22, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky

Some 250 AFGE members and supporters rallied outside Republican U.S. Senator Roy Blunt's office in St. Louis, March 20, to protest the $85 billion in across-the-board cuts to vital social services and the military, known as...