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...They say ministers have ignored their pleas, and that price inflation is eating into family spending. With Prime Minister Yves Leterme due to unveil his 2009 budget to parliament on October 14, the unions want a signal that some form of relief is on the cards...
...percent will experience a decrease in their property taxes, City Manager Robert W. Healy told the Council last night. For the most part, the small percentage of residents to pay increases of over $500 have recently renovated their homes, thus increasing their value, Healy said. At the May budget meetings, Healy had said that taxes would likely go up to accommodate a budget increase, which the Council set as five percent over the summer. Calling the results “phenomenal” in light of the “volatile times,” Councilor David P. Maher also...
...Small Government, would reduce the current state income tax rate of 5.3% to 2.65% beginning on January 1, 2009, and eliminate it completely the following year. Taxpayers would save an average of $3,600 a year, at a cost of roughly $12.5 billion, or 40 percent, of the state budget. While government officials argue that the initiative would decimate government projects ranging from Massachusetts’ one-of-a-kind universal health care plan to infrastructure repairs, proponents see the initiative as an opportunity to expose and eliminate wasteful government spending. “These are the usual...
...over four years, working as a roofer instead. Simmons' stipend, meanwhile, "isn't enough to live on," she says. Paying for day-care and diapers on top of a commute that was already growing more expensive as gas prices rose, she adds, "puts a big strain on the budget." The food bank's offerings include applesauce, one of her 21-month-old's favorites...
...student volunteers help package food, stock shelves and serve customers. They conduct interviews to see how much food to give out - if a customer has a family to support, he or she gets more - but almost never turn someone away. "Someone who is not on a tight budget is probably not going to go through the hassle," says Kristin Moretto, 34, an education graduate student and the director of the food bank...