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San Francisco's impending $522 million budget deficit may come with a silver lining: It may finally force San Francisco city leaders and the electorate to make the tough decisions needed to turn things around. Over the past...
It is undeniable that a college education greatly increases total lifetime earnings, and is becoming a requisite for even basic employment. At a time when Michigan has the worst unemployment rate in the country, it is idiotic...
Reuters Created: Nov 24, 2009 DUBLIN—Irish public sector workers, including teachers, nurses and civil servants, went on strike on Tuesday in protest against government plans to cut pay and prevent the national debt from...
ABU DHABI -- Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) agreed Monday to lend Mauritania USD 47 million to modernize financial administration and reforming budget systems. The loan agreement was signed by the Mauritanian minister of finance and...
Our View-Too many blacks refusing H1N1 vaccine Daily 49er By Staff The horror stories and rumors traveling from mouth-to-mouth about H1N1 vaccine get more intensified each time they leave the lips of a new narrator. As much as...
Sounding engaged and no longer a bit dismissive of the threat from former House Speaker Marco Rubio in the Republican U.S. Senate race**, Gov. Charlie Crist suggested the Miami Republican has escaped significant scrutiny and...
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Much of Ireland's public sector was expected to grind to a halt on Tuesday in a protest against the government's plans to cut pay and reduce the large public deficit. Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who has a...
By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday Sri Lanka's budget deficit targets for both this and next year are challenging due to slow revenue growth, but still within reach....
It will have to be done eventually; here's where to start AMERICA has gotten itself into a funny place. Despite the large increase in its debt load associated with the Bush tax cuts, two significant wars, a deep recession, and...
Little more than two months before the primary election, Cook County commissioners approved a half-penny reduction in the sales tax Tuesday and quickly moved to polish what will surely be a campaign slogan of budget reform.
