Budget – Page 15 – People's World

Ryan budget: A nightmare in the making

April 3, 2012 By PW Editorial Board

House Republicans approved a budget that is far worse than any reasonable person could, up to now, have imagined would ever come out of a U.S. Congress.

Under the gun, Congress OK’s 90-day fix on mass transit

March 30, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

The ruling House GOP wouldn't even let lawmakers vote on a 2-year bipartisan highway-mass transit bill the Senate approved earlier this month.

Interest rate swaps wreak havoc around the country

March 29, 2012 By Marilyn Bechtel

Like many states and local governments around the country, Oakland is being victimized by the banking industry.

GOP budget vs the people

March 21, 2012 By John Wojcik

would destroy the American Dream and, according to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka,, "establish a government of, by and for the 1percent."The budget proposes the unleashing of numerous additional reductions in the living standards of working people.

Ending the horrors of the Afghan war

March 14, 2012 By Marilyn Bechtel

Now in its eleventh year, the U.S.'s longest-ever war has been the scene of many horrendous crimes against innocent Afghan people.