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Liebman will also be in Washington—helping to oversee the policies and management of federal agencies as the new executive associate director of the president’s Office of Management and Budget...
...agree with that argument, numerous studies have shown that investments in preventative care save money in the long run. The Guttmacher Institute, which advocates for abortion rights, estimates that every dollar of publicly funded family-planning services saves $4 in state and federal dollars. And when the Congressional Budget Office looked at a very similar provision in 2007, it estimated that the federal savings would have totaled $200 million over five years and $400 million over...
...what would Quinn - whose office has acknowledged that the state's accumulated debt could be $5 billion and climbing - do to get the state back on track? "The lieutenant governor has said the priorities are ethics reform, the economy and then the state budget crisis," Reed says. "Any one of those would be enough for anybody, but taken together, it's a tall order...
...only the state as a whole functioned as smoothly as the trial. In a perfect - or at least normal - world, the Illinois legislature would convene next Wednesday to ready a budget that is due two weeks later and set to work drafting bills to help the state. On the to-do list: battle the effects of a plummeting economy, bolster schools and the small-business sector, shore up agriculture and deal with a host of environmental issues, from clean coal to protecting Lake Michigan. "Nothing's getting done," says state representative Patricia Bellock, a Republican...
...spring back up," says Radogno. "They're gone, and we're damaging the human services infrastructure in the state." The cash flow at free clinics is drying up. And to make matters worse, the state's credit rating is sinking - and there hasn't been a balanced budget in years. As a result, the state has had to take out emergency loans to cover the deficit, and those payments - amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars - will be due in late winter and spring...