Budget Cuts

Only one place to cut: Pentagon

May 8, 2013 By Judith Le Blanc

There is a smart, good, and doable solution. We must move the money to invest in programs that will create jobs and turn the economy around.

Workers say city services are vital to public safety

April 4, 2013 By Marilyn Bechtel

City workers gathered in front of City Hall April 2 with a message for City Council members starting to discuss a new two-year budget.

Sequester cuts mean idle planes, poultry plants and VA offices, says AFGE

March 22, 2013 By Tony Pecinovsky

Some 250 AFGE members and supporters rallied outside Republican U.S. Senator Roy Blunt's office in St. Louis, March 20, to protest the $85 billion in across-the-board cuts to vital social services and the military, known as...

Chained CPI equals benefit cuts for retirees, veterans

March 22, 2013 By Art Perlo

The billionaire-funded campaign against Social Security has gone into high gear, and it's called chained CPI.

Sick and tired of austerity

March 21, 2013 By John Case

It's clear that the wealthy backers of the "tear down every advance for working people since the New Deal" crowd have lots of phony arguments about debt and austerity.