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Report: 9 states May Lose Under Bush Plan
Nine states would receive less money from Washington, D.C., if Congress adopts President Bush's 2007 budget proposal, while most others would see modest increases, suggests a new analysis by Federal Funds Information for States, a subscription service for state officials.more -
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Federal Red Ink Shrinks Money for States
President Bush is offering states no help in paying for congressionally ordered changes to driver's licenses and would foist new costs on states to provide food for low-income pregnant women while slashing money to revitalize poor neighborhoods. One day after Bush released his $2.77 trillion proposed 2007 budget, analysts scouring the document concluded that while it is chock full of savings for the federal government, it could spell new financial responsibilities for states.more -
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Bush Budget Short on State Aid
With the federal government swimming in a sea of red ink, states can be grateful that their own financial pictures have gotten rosier because there is little extra money to trickle down from Washington, D.C. President Bush's proposed 2007 budget squeezes savings from an array of domestic spending programs -- including a number of programs that benefit states and local governments -- and calls for $13.6 billion in cuts to Medicaid spending over the next five years.more -
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Bush Budget Cuts Education
President Bush proposed shrinking federal spending on education by more $3 billion in his new budget proposal released Feb. 6, but he also wants to launch new initiatives to strengthen math and science achievement and reform America's high schools.more -
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Richer States Get Less From Uncle Sam
The federal tax burden falls most heavily on affluent Connecticut, while the state of New Mexico, home of the White Sands Missile Range, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the highest poverty rate in the nation, gets the most federal dollars back, studies of the federal budgets impact on states show. more