Budget Cuts – Page 6 – People's World

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...

Chained CPI equals benefit cuts for retirees, veterans

March 22, 2013 By Art Perlo

The billionaire-funded campaign against Social Security has gone into high gear, and it's called chained CPI.

Sick and tired of austerity

March 21, 2013 By John Case

It's clear that the wealthy backers of the "tear down every advance for working people since the New Deal" crowd have lots of phony arguments about debt and austerity.

Workers coast-to-coast demand rollback of “sequester” cuts

March 21, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg And John Bachtell

At least 160 cities and towns across the country saw mass demonstrations yesterday against the "sequester" - the $85 billion in budget cuts over the next six months that Congress, through its inaction, has allowed to...