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    We have read in the news recently that there are plenty of public defenders who are facing budget cuts and are in a financial crisis. A present day example of this can be seen by how a chief public defender in New Orleans has had to resort to turning clients away due to a lack of resources. However, it is not only due to money that they have had to turn clients away, these client who may have no other means of representation; they also believe that they can no longer perform up to the standards of

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    Cuts in government spending as a strategy for economic growth have become accepted as have tax cuts on the top income earners in keeping with President Reagan, who cut top marginal tax rates in the 1980s from 70 percent to 28 percent. In a way quaint, both strategies have been perceived as the appropriate solution for economic growth. Such cuts, though, have differential impacts on their targets. It is believed that cuts in top marginal tax rates reward success, while the cuts in spending punish

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    English 2696 November 6th, 2014 The effects of budget cuts on Philadelphia public education Impacts on the inadequate funding on the quality of education Since last spring, Philadelphia school district leaders have been sounding the alarm about this year’s fiscal budget. Even after months of discussions and headlines, schools have opened with fewer resources than last year. On March 28th the School Reform Commission approved a lump sum budget which showed a need for an additional $220 million

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    year President Warren G. Harding decided it was time for an executive budget, and he signed it into law. This is a big contrast from not only one President to the next, but one year to the next. Each President had their own opinion on how the government should spend the people's money in this case. To run the government, it takes enormous amounts of revenue to support many levels of policy. However, some policies do not make the cut. One example was the Noise Control Act. This bill was introduced to

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    changed by the proposed Medicaid cuts. Legislature has told the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) that they must cut $350 million from the Medicaid funding over the next two years. In order to abide by the legislature’s demands, the HHSC has proposed cutting the reimbursement rates for pediatric physical and occupational therapists on average by 10 to 25 percent. And pediatric speech therapists would face cuts of 16 to 27 percent. Many feel that these cuts to the therapy payments have

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    best education possible just to balance the budget? The forthcoming of Pennsylvania relies on the education of the younger generations. Only time can tell whether adolescents, currently being educated, can maintain the high level of learning with the barriers they are going to encounter with the proposed budget. For a positive future in Pennsylvania, the youth must be educated intelligently and properly. Proposed Pennsylvania state educational budget cuts will deny students the opportunity to develop

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    looking at two variables. I will first look at the multiplier effect of the state putting money into the California State University system and what will happen as a result of the divestment due to the budget cuts. I will then look at the decrease in the median income due to the fact that the budget cuts will cause a decrease in enrollment which means there will be fewer college graduates and college graduates earn more money than their non-graduate counterparts

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    considerations, budget concerns, economic impact and cultural values Shapiro (2013). American higher education is described by Engell and Dangerfield (2005) as “The fastest-expanding and often strongest motivation in American higher education is now money” (as quoted in Bean, 2007, page 240). For instance, budget cuts have been administered nearly all over the country but how does it affect the institutions within that state. When states are unable to provide aid to school districts due to budget cuts

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    I am not happy that meals-on-wheels could suffer under the new Trump budget cuts. However, Meals-on-wheels is not directly funded by the Federal Government. It is supported by a mixture of funds distributed from state and local governments,charity contributions plus volunteer staffers. I paid directly for my mother 's meals-on-wheels... volunteers brought it to her house... However, MOW did also receive some outside funding from the state. The Trump administration went after the 'Community Development

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    Consequently, even the highest performing US graduates will still struggle to compete in the global job market because only a small percentage have necessary skills whereas a majority of Hong Kong students possess similar skills. Since US highest performing schools obtain a low percentage of higher performing students, this means that the percentage, in every other state, will face bigger problems. “The current and future workforce will be competing not only with each other and millions of newly

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