Hundreds of thousands of teachers and firefighters and police officers have been laid off because of state budget cuts.
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And state budget cuts have been among the largest factor in tuition hikes at public colleges over the past decade.
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If you layer on top the recent State budget cuts, I feel like I should be teaching our program to the legislators.
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Meanwhile, college costs have continued to rise at rates faster than inflation, particularly at public schools faced with state budget cuts, according to College Board figures.
With the ever-growing cost of secondary education and state budget cuts pushing up the price tag for public colleges and universities, for many students it is a vital part of financing their education.
College towns, which had previously done well in the face of the recession, have also moved sharply lower in our rankings, due to a combination of state budget cuts and better performance elsewhere.
Second, the American Jobs Act of 2011 puts more people back to work, including teachers laid off by State budget cuts, first responders and veterans coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, and construction workers repairing crumbling bridges, roads and more than 35, 000 schools, with projects chosen by need and impact, not earmarks and politics.
Second, it puts more people back to work, including up to 280, 000 teachers laid off by state-budget cuts, first responders and veterans coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, and construction workers repairing crumbling bridges, roads and more than 35, 000 public schools, with projects chosen by need and impact, not earmarks and politics.
The district also has longstanding budget problems, which it says have been aggravated by recent state-wide budget cuts.
However, in light of ongoing state budget and sequestration cuts, mental health services continue to erode.
These folks would have otherwise lost their jobs because of state and local budget cuts.
English majors struggled and the market for education graduates was particularly dire amid state and local budget cuts.
Risks to our thesis include greater-than-expected state and local budget cuts, significant reductions in the Department of Defense spending, and a lack of nuclear power projects over the next decade.
And over the past few months, the economy has experienced some tough headwinds -- from natural disasters, to spikes in gas prices, to state and local budget cuts that have cost tens of thousands of cops and firefighters and teachers their jobs.
The State of California, for example, has worked hard to reform its state budget with major expenditure cuts, smaller debt offerings and a voter-approved tax increase.
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But legislators had anticipated using that money to rebuild state projects after years of budget cuts.
California's Republicans fought hard for cuts in the state budget this summer, at one point camping overnight in their seats.
Direct jobs are jobs that are directly created and funded through spending in the Recovery Act -- in this case, for example, think about a job of an educator saved because a state budget would have had to undergo cuts that would have enforced a layoff.
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Mr. Ravitch worries Congress will try to balance the federal budget with billions of dollars in state aid cuts.
In Connecticut, the GOP has attacked Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Malloy for his union support, saying it will make it hard for him to make big cuts to the state's budget.
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Mr Walker, in turn, has achieved national fame for taking on the public-sector unions, much as Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, became a hero on the right for imposing budget cuts on reluctant Democrats in his state legislature.
California already has the worst credit rating among the 50 states, and budget cuts have torn a hole in the state's social safety-net.
Christie cut the state budget to its smallest total in five years with major cuts to schools, municipalities, mass transit and other areas .
State workers in Colorado may face unpaid time off in an effort to spare the state's colleges and universities millions of dollars in budget cuts, KUSA-TV in Denver reported Tuesday.
The governor was able to stand on a platform that included recent cuts to property taxes and a newly healthy state budget.
Walker's message -- that state workers unions had too much power and were preventing necessary budget cuts -- resonated with voters, Gergen said.
After all, to balance the budget with spending cuts alone would mean cuts in the state's health and social services of up to 10%.
Shortly after he took office in 2010, Mr. Christie froze hundreds of millions of dollars in state funding to help close a midyear budget gap, then made sweeping cuts of up to 5% of districts' budgets in his 2010-11 budget, as federal stimulus funding ran out.
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