Sequester
Budget cuts nix $90M in federal college aid
WASHINGTON — Schools near military bases and tribal lands will face a $60 million shortfall between now and September and aid to college students will be cut by almost $90 million, according to the Education Department’s plan to carry out the automatic spending cuts mandated by Congress.
Defense cuts bigger threat to small AZ firms
PHOENIX - Smaller companies with contracts to supply products and services to Arizona's top-tier aerospace and defense companies face the greatest threat if sequestration cuts take effect, according to a new report.
Sarah Garrecht Gassen: The sequester is going to hurt, no matter what the seed-eaters say
Barring any last minute "miracles" to call off this Congress-inflicted fiasco, automatic federal budget cuts will kick in. The reductions total $1.2 trillion spread over nine years. The first cuts will be $85 billion by the end of September.
Guest Column: Balancing Act is a fair alternative to pain, misery of sequestration
"There is no flexibility. Nearly everyone will be affected."
Guest Column: Balancing Act is a fair alternative to pain, misery of sequestration
The massive federal budget cuts that will start Friday as part of the "sequester" will damage our economic recovery and mean fewer services here in Southern Arizona. Strip away the conservative economic theories and party-line rhetoric and that's the reality we're facing.
White House did initiate automatic spending cuts
Misunderstanding, misstatements and all the classic contortions of partisan message management surround the sequester, the term for the $85 billion in ugly and largely irrational federal spending cuts set by law to begin Friday.
Sequester expected to take a toll in Southern Arizona
Southern Arizonans can expect a rash of negative effects if that strange-sounding thing called the sequester comes to pass Friday.
Inane blame game rages on as sequester looms
We are just days away from a cataclysm of biblical proportions. The cuts foretold in the Budget Control Act of 2011 apparently are every bit as terrifying as rivers of blood and plagues of locusts.
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