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For Immediate ReleaseStatement: Robert Greenstein, President, on House Speaker Boehner’s New Budget Proposal
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3548House Speaker John Boehner’s new budget proposal would essentially require, as the price of raising the debt ceiling again early next year, a choice between deep cuts in the years immediately ahead in Social Security and Medicare benefits for current retirees, repeal of health reform’s coverage expansions, or wholesale evisceration of basic assistance programs for vulnerable Americans.
The plan is, thus, tantamount to a form of “class warfare.” If enacted, it could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship produced by any law in modern U.S. history.
This may sound hyperbolic, but it is not. Both the mathematics and the politics are clear.
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Testimony: Robert Greenstein, President, on “Deficit Reduction: A Review of Key Issues”
July 26, 2011
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Section 8 Rental Assistance Programs Are Not Growing as Share of HUD Budget
July 20, 2011
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National Organizations Opposing the Balanced Budget Amendment
Updated July 14, 2011
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Statement: Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on the June Employment Report
July 8, 2011
Global Spending Cap Would Make it Virtually Impossible to Enact Climate Legislation
Budget Enforcement Device Has Received Growing Attention in Recent Days
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3515The cap that these proposals would establish very likely would make it impossible to enact any market-based strategy to reduce the carbon pollution that drives global warming. That's because all such strategies — from carbon taxes to carbon "allowance" systems — are "scored" under Congressional Budget Office (CBO) budget rules as both raising federal revenues and spending them. Comprehensive climate change legislation would raise revenues by putting a price on greenhouse gas pollution and use those revenues for such purposes as protecting consumers and energy-intensive firms and workers and investing in energy efficiency and clean energy technology.
Because the global spending cap proposals would impose a cap on total federal spending in any fiscal year (as a percent of Gross Domestic Product, or GDP), they would bar adoption of such strategies unless they contained large offsetting cuts in other government spending. This would be true even for climate protection proposals that raised sufficient revenue to fully cover their spending — or even went further and reduced the deficit. In other words, even climate protection legislation that reduced the deficit would run afoul of a global spending cap.
- States Continue to Feel Recession’s Impact
- Food Stamps On-Line: A Review of State Government Food Stamp Websites
- Policy Basics: Where Do Our Federal Tax Dollars Go?
- An Update on State Budget Cuts
- Economic Downturn and Bush Policies Continue to Drive Large Projected Deficits
- Online Services for Key Low-Income Benefit Programs
- Policy Basics: Introduction to the Federal Budget Process
Gov’t Subsidizes Deep-Water Drilling With Big Tax Breaks
http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/oil-companies-still-get-billions-in-incentives-to-drill-in-deep-water
Latest Posts on this Topic
- Corrected: BP's Broken Alaska Pipeline Not the Same as Corroded Line Identified Last Year
- Latest BP Spill in Alaska Was Foreshadowed in Risk Assessment Last Year
- Spillionaires Revisited: Gov't Official's Associates Got Big Contracts After the BP Oil Spill
- Chief Offshore Drilling Regulator Criticizes Lack of Oversight for Contractors
- Gulf's Delacroix Islanders Watch As Their World Disappears
a humble suggestion for balancing the budget and eliminating the debt
http://www.dean2016.com/a-humble-suggestion-for-balancing-the-budget-and-eliminating-the-debt
- Blog post: We know how to fix the economy, but… http://bit.ly/k8WGXd (via Dean2016.com)
- Dean Seeks Some Respect (and Credit) for Obama’s Victory http://nyti.ms/kjSPKt (via NYT)
- Blog post: GOP weakness in 2012 means a strong field in 2016 http://bit.ly/mvtukG (via Dean2016.com)
- **Blog post: Public literacy is due to public education http://bit.ly/iUn4y4 (via Dean2016.com)
- **Leadership Day 2011 Aug 5 K-12 Educators' online briefing
- and a call for blogger participation
- At this blog the Topical Index lists educational focus articles
- Opit Online gives Delicious and Diigo feeds - which are only a fraction of what is available on tagfile/search from the bookmarking communities Diigo also has a Deep Search utility which can use past search info
- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Blog Guy Harvey Save Our Gulf http://gulfofmexicooilspillblog.com/2011/06/03/gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill-blog-guy-harvey-save-our-gulf
- As part of the “Save Our Gulf” outreach campaign, the GHOF teamed with the Sun Sentinel’s Newspapers in Education program to create the “Save Our Gulf Art and Essay Contest.” The contest was open to students in first through 12th grades throughout South Florida, Pinellas and Escambia counties. Participants created an original work of art depicting the oil spill’s impact on marine life in the Gulf. The response was overwhelming, with hundreds of submissions from students of all ages and abilities demonstrating their appreciation of marine life and their desire to promote ocean conservation.
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