Budget News
 Chicago Tribune | Weighing budget cuts vs. cigarette tax hike Chicago Sun-Times Pensions and Medicaid spending is are gobbling up almost 40 percent of the state's budget. And if nothing is done right now, in just a few short years the mountain of overdue Medicaid bills alone will be higher than what the state spends on its annual ... With budget in turmoil, Illinois lawmakers inch closer to slashing health care ... Senate Democrats pass budget plan they say will probably change IL Lawmakers Slash Health Care for the Poor |
 Salon | Experts Skeptical of Romney's Defense Budget Plans U.S. News & World Report His plan for overall deficit reduction calls for cutting other parts of the budget, not defense. But Sen. Tom Coburn, author of The Debt Bomb, and one Congress' most fiscally conservative members, is calling for the opposite of increased defense ... Ann Coulter's phony budget math How Big a Government? Obama Is a Spendthrift? And Here's the Proof |
State budgets spring new, smaller holes Chicago Tribune Budget gaps totaling $54 billion emerged in state budgets for fiscal 2013, according to a the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a think tank that tracks state fiscal issues. Not all states are created equal when it comes to budgets as not all ... |
 ThinkProgress | Budget bill wins approval in Oklahoma House NewsOK.com Five Republican House members switched their votes and another GOP member who had been absent for the first vote voted for an Oklahoma budget bill during the second vote. The budget bill, which won Senate approval on Tuesday, now heads to the governor. Okla. House narrowly passes budget bill on second try State House fails to pass annual budget bill Oklahoma House approves state budget after failed morning attempt |
 MLive.com | Detroit City Council OKs $1.12B budget with severe cuts to firefighters, EMS ... Detroit Free Press By Matt Helms and Suzette Hackney Detroit's human services department will be eliminated, the transportation and lighting departments will be privatized, and 2600 jobs will be cut -- including EMS and firefighters -- under a $1.12-billion budget sent ... Detroit City Council approves budget, restores some departments Detroit City Council approves $1.12 billion budget, reversing mayoral cuts to ... Detroit City Council approves new budget, continues to argue over consent ... |
SEPTA approves budget, looks to Harrisburg for more aid Philadelphia Inquirer By Paul Nussbaum The SEPTA board Thursday dug deep into its rainy-day fund in adopting a $1.28 billion operating budget for the next 12 months. That left the transit agency without enough reserves to cover an anticipated $38 million deficit starting ... |
 Stuff.co.nz | New Zealand tightens budget, sticks to surplus plan Reuters By Mantik Kusjanto and Naomi Tajitsu | WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand unveiled its toughest budget in 20 years on Thursday, with no spending increase and moves to increase the tax take in the struggling economy, as it laid out a return to a budget ... Budget strikes enviable balance - Key New Zealand says 'zero' budget will bring surplus Drab Budget offers zero hope - Labour |
Metro approves $2.5 billion budget Washington Post Metro's board of directors unanimously passed its proposed annual budget Thursday, adopting a $2.5 billion spending plan that, despite protests from riders, increases fares systemwide and requires larger subsidies from area jurisdictions. |
 The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com | State budget: Schools and movies get boost; taxes fall Detroit Free Press Snyder and the lawmakers, meeting to finalize the outline of the state's 2012-13 budget, decided to cut $90 million from individual income taxes, though whether that will take the form of a rate reduction or a larger personal exemption, ... More for movies, less for heat in state budget Michigan Film Industry Expected To Receive Extra $25 Million In 2013 Budget ... Gov., Mich. legislative leaders OK income tax cut |
 Press News | Midterm Ohio budget heads to governor's desk CBS News COLUMBUS, Ohio ? Startup costs related to Ohio's upcoming regulations for exotic animals are among new spending items in a wide-ranging midterm budget bill headed Wednesday to Gov. John Kasich for his expected signature. The bill was a rare reopening ... Midterm budget heads to Kasich Kasich Must Decide If He Will Use Veto Pen On Budget Trial attorneys peeved about last-minute workers' comp changes in budget bill |