Apr 12 2010
As Cities Struggle for Cash, Pentagon Flush
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As tax day looms in a few days, city and state budgets continue to reel from the economic downturn. With tax revenues that funded services plummeting mayors and city councilors across the nation struggle to decide agencies to trim, and which to cut altogether. State universities and colleges have furloughed thousands of faculty and administrators while students scramble …
As tax day looms in a few days, city and state budgets continue to reel from the economic downturn. With tax revenues that funded services plummeting mayors and city councilors across the nation struggle to decide agencies to trim, and which to cut altogether. State universities and colleges have furloughed thousands of faculty and administrators while students scramble …
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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of 
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