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Thanks to the California state budget that was approved early Thursday morning, my husband and I - relatively new citizens of the Golden State - will help bridge the extraordinary $42 billion deficit next year by paying approximately $1,000 in additional taxes, fees and loss of dependent tax credits. And this figure will remain at that level only if we make no purchases for 12 months in an effort to avoid the new 1-cent-on-the-dollar increase in sales...
...course, a better option than getting laid off, not receiving our 2008 tax refund or being unable to drive through an abandoned highway repair project - the brutal realities of a state in freefall with no balanced budget. But it's still a bit of a shock. "The average Californian hasn't figured out exactly what this particular budget means for him or her yet," says Mark Baldassare, president and chief executive officer of the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. "But they're going to feel it soon...
...rising costs of care for the 40 tamarins that reside in the lab were getting too high—especially in the current economic climate—considering that his research is purely behavioral. “The granting that funds behavioral work have nowhere near the kinds of budget as the funds for biomedical research,” Hauser said. While the monkeys have been a source of controversy for animal activists, they provide a relatively rare research opportunity for Hauser’s lab, the only behavioral research lab at Harvard that uses monkeys. He said that with...
...recent memo to library staff, Elizabeth Johnson, chief of staff for the librarian of Harvard College, noted that the entire Harvard College Library system is contemplating shutting its doors on Saturdays, due to budget cuts...
...social ramifications. Saturday is the only day people can check off the Widener box without the nagging guilt of unfinished assignments. Unlike Primal Scream, which happens but once a year, Widener was always there for us. But now we’ll have to plan our assignations around its budget cuts. And for people who rely on BoredatLamont for their romantic interactions, Saturday nights just got a lot lonelier. Everyone will have to find other places to do those things we always do in libraries, like having free wireless access and not sleeping...