Counties Want Feds To Stop Walker Freeze Of Family-Care WSAU.com ...The popular program offers a variety of health services designed to keep the elderly out of nursing homes, and disabled younger people out of institutions...
Minn. employees seeking work elsewhere Associated Press ...Many of the 22,000 public employees out of work in Minnesota’s budget impasse say they will get through the extended layoff by tapping into personal savings, making household spending cuts, and relying on a spouse’s income or unemployment checks...
GOP legislator sponsors Great Lakes water bill to fatten his own wallet Plunderbund ...Republican Rep. Lynn Wachtmann ...is employed as the President of Maumee Valley Bottling, Inc....Now why on earth would the bottled water industry care about unregulated daily withdrawals of millions of gallons of water from the Great Lakes?...
Is selling state services responsible? Scripps-Howard ...The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says 46 states and the District of Columbia have made severe cuts in state services, including health care (31 states), services to the elderly and disabled (29 states and D.C.), K-12 education (34 states and D.C.) and higher education (43 states)...
No, We Can’t? Or Won’t? (Opinion) New York Times ...The truth is that creating jobs in a depressed economy is something government could and should be doing...
Economy Faces a Jolt as Benefit Checks Run Out New York Times ...Unless hiring picks up sharply to compensate, economists fear that the lost income will further crimp consumer spending and act as a drag on a recovery that is still quite fragile...
