Budget Cuts Case Study

In today’s school systems, art and music classes are not mandatory to be taught. This makes them very vulnerable to budget cuts in struggling schools. It is estimated that more than eighty percent of schools nationwide have experienced cuts to their budgets since 2008 (Metla). Every child in America deserves a complete education, and a complete education includes the arts. Due to budget cuts, many students do not receive instruction in art and music and therefore do not receive a full education. Music and art classes in schools are just as important as core classes and should not be subject to budget cuts.

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Following his less-government intervention views, Reagan cut the budgets of non-military programs including Medicaid, food

"Our analysis shows that the bill will cut more than $400 million federal dollars a year from our state Medicaid program," she said in a statement. "For families with loved ones — parents, children — who need nursing home care or receive home- and community-based long-term services, the Senate Medicaid cuts will (be) truly

Mick Mulvaney, the budget director, says that “We can’t spend money on programs just because they sound good,” (Carroll A10). The Trump administration believes that Meals on Wheels and other organizations funded by the Health and Human services are not coming up with good enough results. As if helping the elderly eat is not a good enough reason to be federally funded, the government completely ignores what is right in front of them. A economic analysis in 2013 stated that if each state increased the number of older Americans that got Meals on Wheels by just one percent, it would have saved $109 million in Medicaid (Carroll A10). They are not just spending money on things that are not working, the government would actually save more money if Meals on Wheels had that extra push. That is not the only way Meals on Wheels saves money though, another 2013 study on home delivered meals shows, “The average cost of a one-month nursing home stay is equivalent to providing home-delivered meals five days a week for approximately seven years,” (Ingraham). The more funding for Meals on Wheels, the less money that is being spent. The Trump administration should try to realize that giving organizations like these a chance, would actually save more money. If the new budget plan just throws out any idea that does not give them immediate results, then they will not

The Trump administration went after the 'Community Development Block Grants ', which distributes a portion of federal funds to meals-on-wheel programs. CDBG has been under the scrutiny for budget cuts of past administrations for years, as some federal elected officials feel they are not serving their

Cutting their funding will lead to more health issues for people who used to go to them, thereby increasing costs on the public services providing by the government. It will end up costing more than actually not cutting their funds.

In the case study for Implementing Budget Cuts in the Basic Health Plan, the core problem is how and who to cut or qualifies for disenrollment from the insurance program. This issue came about when Washington Legislature passed the 2009-11 Biennial Budget. Here government officials started to reassess the regions budget due to a heavy recession. They were looking at trying to save billions of dollars, which almost a quarter million of those billions would come from reducing the funds to the program for Basic Health Plan.

How does the United States government spend money on its military? What does this money specifically go towards?

Medicare sought to curb the cost of therapeutic services in 1997 by imposing The Balanced Budget Act. This Act placed a $1,500 limit on therapy services. This is significant to OT because some patients may not be able to get the amount of therapy they need; consequently, OT practitioners must strategize sessions in order to meet the patients’ needs.

The Congressional Budget Office is estimating that the economy will continue to grow. Consumption spending will continue to grow, but at a smaller rate. The growth is contributed to the ability to have an increased likelihood to be eligible for a loan. Consumer spending will also increase due to more jobs in order to keep up with an increase in output. Unemployment will have to decrease to keep up with output and prevent shortages, and unemployment will eventually fall below penitential. Inflation will rise the to the increase in aggregate supply and aggregate demand. An increase in employed workers will cause an increase in disposable income that will result in increased spending. In order to slow the inflation rate, the Federal Reserve will

Within the case study, all of the terms mentioned seem to directly apply to the student population, and what a school should be offering them. Also, is describes the qualities the leaderships members need to keep in mind. Everything is to be done for the betterment of the students, and these terms are there to justify that thought. Budgeting should be done with thoughts of the students at hand. All students are to be offered an equal, quality and fair opportunity at an education and these terms correlate with that. The bottom line to think about is that our students are an investment

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) uses nonpartisan economists and budget analysts to create independent reports for proposed legislation. (IntroToCBO: Congressional Budget Office, 2016) The CBO supports Congress in a variety of ways. First, it researches and predicts cost estimates for almost every legislative bill that makes it out of committee. It is important to note that the CBO does not make policy recommendations; it strives to be objective in analyzing the economic impact of a specific piece of legislation. (about:overview:cbo, 2016) These reports are called cost estimates and they attempt to show how much revenue or spending the proposed piece of legislation would generate or cost over the next decade.

Every employee who has completed their initial probationary period in state service is entitled to one Personal Holiday (PH) per fiscal year.*

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