Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...spending on our public schools by 50 percent, or $115 billion over 10 years, the single biggest expansion in a generation. Bush only proposes an additional $13.5 billion in spending over five years, less than one-fortieth the amount he wants to spend on an across-the-board tax cut that would primarily benefit the top five percent of income earners...
...report, issued under the auspices of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, recommends that the U.S. better track HIV infections and fund the most cost-effective prevention programs. According to the report, such measures could dramatically cut the number of new infections...
...there are clouds on the horizon, and when Greenspan mentioned one of them - rising oil prices that could exert inflationary pressures - investors had a little sell-off, stopped, and then sold again until the modest morning rally had melted away. (Some moony-eyed investors were betting that Greensapn would cut rates; others suddenly got scared about oil prices...
...delay freed Texas from having to spend billions of dollars in matching state grants, leaving enough money for Bush to pass $1 billion in tax relief in the 1997 legislative session. Two years later, he set his sights on even bigger tax cuts. To make the numbers work, Medicaid spending had to be contained. The governor's office fought a bill to require automatic re-enrollment in Medicaid of kids still eligible after their parents were dropped from welfare rolls. And under pressure from Bush allies running the appropriations committees, Texas legislators accepted projections of a steep decline in patient...
...than money. Ray had Medicaid until his mother got a job three months ago and stopped receiving cash aid. Rene Haros's income was low enough for her five children to remain eligible for Medicaid. But no one told her that unless she asked for it, they'd be cut off. To reapply, she has to navigate a complex and intrusive process. She must go to an interview, fill out as many as 19 forms, reveal family assets and document everything from children's births to job histories of adult household members. Once approved, Ray's mother will have...