47,291 public and private jobs to be lost from cuts to education sectors in Ohio Policy Matters Ohio ...The $2 billion in cuts to Ohio's primary, secondary and higher education proposed in House Bill 153 for the FY2012-13 budget may have a larger impact than just the direct jobs cut and the weakening of education in Ohio...
Elections overhaul passed by Fla. House Associated Press ...The bill's passage follows a string of Republican-led victories this legislative session, including overhauling the state's courts system, easing growth management laws and weakening public employee unions...
State Pension in Perspective Bangor Daily News ...Beginning many decades ago, the state did not set aside enough money each year to meet its pension obligations...
Detroit pension systems challenge Emergency Manager law Michigan Messenger ...Allowing Emergency Managers to take over pension funds will illegally change collective bargaining agreements and violate the property rights of city workers, they say...
Lynch urges people to fight spending cuts Manchester Union-Leader ...Warning of "egregious cuts" in the House-passed state budget, Gov. John Lynch is urging residents to call their state senators and implore them to spend more on human services, higher education, and public safety...
Some at Pa. universities get pay hikes Lancaster Online ...While the state universities' lowest paid workers are gearing up to fight a proposed 4 percent pay cut in July, their bosses already are putting extra money in their own pockets...
84 percent oppose Ryan’s Medicare plan Washington Post ...Almost 80 percent of Americans oppose Medicare cuts ... The only deficit-reduction option that is popular? Raising taxes on the rich...
