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Closer to Obama's 'grand bargain'
The budget proposal President Obama released Wednesday sticks close to the themes of increased public investment and middle-class growth that he sounded in his reelection campaign, but it includes one notable new feature. For the first time, Obama lays...
Tags: Personal Income, Budgets and Budgeting, Medicare, Barack Obama, Politics
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Obama unveils $3.78-trillion budget proposal
WASHINGTON — President Obama laid out his vision Wednesday for $3.78 trillion in federal spending, unveiling a budget proposal for the next fiscal year that aims to reignite cooled deficit reduction talks while opening negotiations over the fate...
Tags: National Institutes of Health, Budgets and Budgeting, Health Insurance Cost, Barack Obama, U.S. House Committee on the Budget
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Obama says his budget has 'manageable' cuts to entitlement programs
WASHINGTON -- President Obama argued for “manageable” changes to Medicare and other social safety net programs as he released his budget proposal, a plan aimed at staking out the middle ground in the stalled deficit reduction talks. “...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Medicare, Health Insurance Cost, Barack Obama, Public Finance
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Obama budget impact on California: Win some, lose some
WASHINGTON---President Obama’s budget offers a mixed bag to California: money eagerly sought by Los Angeles to expand its transit system, but no federal funds to help the state pay its nearly billion-dollar bill for jailing illegal immigrants. The...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Immigration, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Budgets and Budgeting
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Obama to unveil budget proposal, latest offer in deficit talks
WASHINGTON — President Obama will unveil a budget proposal Wednesday that curbs spending on Social Security, raises the minimum wage, closes tax loopholes for top earners and invests in infrastructure — an overdue document that the White House...
Tags: Credit and Debt, Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama, Public Finance, White House
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McManus: Can Obama sell 'chained CPI'?
President Obama won't release his proposed budget for 2014 until Wednesday, but liberals and AARP have been howling all week about something they expect to be in it. What has our president done to provoke such outrage among his supporters? He's...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Steaks, Career and Workplace, Foods and Beverages, Nancy Pelosi
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Letters: Disability insurance and depression
Re "Disability: the new welfare?," Opinion, April 2 Jonah Goldberg is correct that the increase in Social Security disability beneficiaries deserves scrutiny, but he shows a misunderstanding of how the program works. It is relatively challenging for a...Tags: Health Insurance, Depression, Insurance, Physical Disabilities, American Enterprise Institute
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Chained thinking on the federal deficit
Washington's tug of war over the federal budget has many wonders, but the biggest one of all must be the lengths to which politicians and pundits will go to deprive Granny and Grandpa of $30 a month. That's the amount by which benefits for the average...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Chess Playing, Steaks, Career and Workplace, Prices
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Obama's budget plan draws fire from both sides
WASHINGTON — The budget that President Obama is scheduled to release next week drew attacks Friday from both the left and right — a reaction that White House aides appeared to welcome as they sought to portray the plan as a middle-of-the-...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Medicare, Barack Obama, John Boehner
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U.S. economy grows at 2.5% rate in 1st quarter
From the Associated PressWASHINGTON -- U.S. economic growth accelerated from January through March, buoyed by the strongest consumer spending in more than two years. The strength offset further declines in government spending that are expected to drag on growth throughout the...Tags: Labor Markets, Consumers, Economic Indicator, Barack Obama, Business
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Retired athletes to protest workers' compensation bill
SACRAMENTO — Let the political games begin. A battle between professional athletes and owners of football, baseball, basketball, hockey and soccer teams starts Monday. Dozens of retired athletes plan a news conference on the steps of the state...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Football, National Football League, National Football League Players Association
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Does Congress have the heart to avert disability crisis?
Bonnie Lee worked for 12 years as a health technician for Kaiser Permanente in Southern California, started her own Web services company, and raised two kids as a single mother in Ontario. Then Bonnie, 51, moved back East to rural Pennsylvania and...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Bankruptcy, Osteoporosis, Radio, National Government
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