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Obama Budget Proposes Broader Unemployment Taxes

JONATHAN WEISMAN And DAMIAN PALETTA The Wall Street Journal 02/08/2011
Cuomo Reaches Deal With Top New York Legislators to Close $10 Billion Gap

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and top lawmakers agreed on a budget that eliminates next year’s $10 billion deficit by sticking close to the governor’s proposals for spending cuts without new taxes, they said.

Obama Budget Proposes Broader Unemployment Taxes

President Barack Obama's budget proposal is expected to give states a way to collect more payroll taxes from businesses, in an effort to replenish the unemployment-insurance program. The plan could cause controversy at a time when the administration is seeking to mend fences with corporate America.

Dutch Cabinet cuts spending in 2011; more to come

Toby Sterling Yahoo! Finance 09/21/2010
California's Brown proposes 'painful' budget cuts

California Governor Jerry Brown unveiled a budget on Monday that included "painful" cuts to state worker pay and social services and a plan to extend tax increases as the most populous U.S. state struggles to close a $25.4 billion deficit.

Dutch Cabinet cuts spending in 2011; more to come

The Netherlands' queen and the outgoing prime minister presented an austere annual budget on Tuesday that cuts spending on health care, immigrants, and government workers -- a foretaste of more far-reaching cuts likely to come under the conservative Cabinet now being formed.

U.S. federal budget gap tops $1 trillion through June

Martin Crutsinger Yahoo! News 07/13/2010
Mayor Bloomberg, budget office pull fast one on five borough presidents with midnight cash raid

New York's five borough presidents are furious Mayor Bloomberg yanked almost $1 million from their bank accounts through a little-known rule.

U.S. federal budget gap tops $1 trillion through June

The federal deficit has topped $1 trillion with three months still to go in the budget year, showing the lasting impact of the recession on the government's finances.

Paterson: We'll Have a Budget By June 28

MICHAEL VIRTANEN NBC New York 06/16/2010

Lawmakers avert government shutdown by narrowly approving Paterson's spending plan

Glenn Blain and Kenneth Lovett New York Daily News 06/14/2010
Paterson: We'll Have a Budget By June 28

Gov. David Paterson has given New York's Legislature a deadline of June 28 for adopting a state budget. "I'm not threatening anyone," Paterson said Wednesday. "I'm just making a promise."

Lawmakers avert government shutdown by narrowly approving Paterson's spending plan

Chaos averted - for at least another week. State lawmakers Monday night narrowly approved Gov. Paterson's latest weekly emergency spending plan, swallowing $327 million in mental health and social service cuts rather than risk a government shutdown with a rejection.

NY State Leaders Square Off Over Emergency Spending Bills

Albany lawmakers squared off Wednesday over emergency spending bills needed to keep the state operating without a budget deal in place.

NYC weighs school lunch cuts to close budget gap

New York City is looking for ways to trim its lunch tab at 1,500 public schools. The Bloomberg Administration reportedly is considering a plan to reduce the selection of hot meals that are offered to students.


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