Budget Cuts – Page 15 – People's World

Largest education union endorses Obama

July 5, 2011 By John Wojcik

The 3.2-million-member National Education Association has endorsed President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.

Texas legislature finally finishes, leaving trail of wreckage

July 1, 2011

That long loud shrieking shudder you heard on June 29 was the entire population of Texas breathing their sigh of relief; the legislature had finally ended its reign of terror and gone home!

Students in the fight against funding cuts

May 5, 2011 By Jordan Farrar

Recently H.R.1 passed in congress cutting $60 billion from the federal budget. One of the programs hit hardest is the Pell Grant program which was stripped of $5.7 billion.

Calif. students: “These budget cuts have got to go!”

March 17, 2011 By Mick Diddams

"Youth apathetic? ... Anyone who wakes up before dawn to drive across the state and rally at the capitol is not apathetic!"

Feb. jobless figures down but concerns rise over govt. cuts

March 15, 2011 By John Wojcik

The nation's official unemployment rate declined ever so slightly for the third straight month in February, down 0.1 percent to 8.9 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last week.