Feb 22, 2011
“If the House Republicans’ proposed budget cuts to the Office of Science are realized, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory would have 400 layoffs – 20 percent of staff – shut down all accelerators immediately, stop buying materials and delay projects, director Pier Oddone said.” [Kane County Chronicle, 2/18/11]
How Republican budget cuts would affect California [Los Angeles Times]
“University of California students would take a nearly $55-million hit from reductions in Pell grants.
A $20-million check promised for bringing a rail line closer to the L.A. airport would be taken back. Head Start cuts would eliminate about 14,000 slots for low-income children in California. [… ]
Democrats said the massive cuts would set back the nation's economic recovery and weaken the safety net for the needy and unemployed. The UC system, for which federal funding is the single largest source of support for research, would receive nearly $100 million less — just in biomedical research. "Cuts of this magnitude are unsustainable if California's biomedical research industry is to remain a global leader in research innovation and an economic engine helping to stabilize California's economy," J. Gary Falle, UC associate vice president for government relations, wrote to lawmakers.” [LA Times, 2/20/11]
House budget would slash many popular programs [Orlando Sentinel]
“Floridians should brace for potential cutbacks to some of their most cherished government programs — including Head Start and law enforcement — as both parties in Congress grapple over ways to rein in deficit spending. […]
An estimated 9,148 Florida children would lose slots in the federally funded Head Start program under the House bill, according to a survey of federal agencies by Senate Democrats. […]
Florida also would lose $30.4 million of special-education grants, $19.3 million for school improvement, $38.6 million to help needy K-12 students, $5.9 million for vocational and adult education, $73.7 million for job training, $29.6 million for public housing and $9.6 million for law enforcement grants, according to the projections.
Pell grants would be cut by nearly 25 percent, while other nonsecurity discretionary funding was sliced by about 13.8 percent, the center found.” [Orlando Sentinel, 2/20/11]
GOP's bill to cut budget would hit WNY hard [Buffalo News]
“New York State would have to give back its high-speed rail funding. The City of Buffalo and the University at Buffalo would lose millions.
Research programs at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus would take a big hit, and the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative would be cut by more than half. And it would happen all at once under a massive budget-cutting bill that neared passage in the Republican-controlled House on Thursday.
The wide-ranging bill would shrink everything from the Head Start program for local youngsters to the West Valley Demonstration Project. Federal funding for family planning clinics and public broadcasting would be eliminated entirely.” [Buffalo News, 2/18/11]
GOP bill could sink Taylor project [Times-Herald Record]
“The Taylor Biomass Project would have to say goodbye to a loan guarantee that brought the project from dream to reality if the Republican spending bill advancing in the House of Representatives Wednesday becomes law […] Montgomery businessman Jim Taylor said a rescission of the loan guarantee would halt a project that promises to create more than 300 construction jobs and 80 permanent positions. [Times-Herald Record, 2/17/11]
Providers Fear Effects of Federal Health Care Cuts [Oshkosh Northwestern]
“Kristene Stacker foresees big holes in the safety net for poor families if cuts to federal funding for community health centers are approved. Stacker, executive director of the Fox Cities Community Health Center in Menasha, is looking at possible layoffs on her 42-person staff and cuts in services to the 7,000 clients the center sees, most of them poor and underserved.
Scores of programs would face the budget ax under the proposal pushed by Republicans, who control the House. Among the cuts would be $1 billion in funding for community health centers.
Such a hit would mean an immediate loss of 60 jobs at the 17 community health centers in Wisconsin and a loss of access to care for 32,000 patients, according to the National Association of Community Health Centers.” [Oshkosh Northwestern, 2/20/11]
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