Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wiping out the last job programs financed under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, which has already been cut from $7.8 billion this fiscal year to $3.5 billion next. In addition to ending the program of hiring 300,000 unemployed people for public-service jobs, the Administration seems ready to end subsidies to private businessmen for the on-the-job training of 500,000 disadvantaged youths...
...Abolishing the $6.4 billion-a-year program of federal revenue-sharing aid to cities and local governments over the next three years, thus cutting off money that now finances programs ranging from airport construction to library maintenance...
...fighting those battles, Reagan faces severe problems of legislative strategy. Normally, Congress would vote separately on 13 appropriations bills providing money to run the Government through the next fiscal year. To avoid having his program hacked to bits during these votes, Reagan would like to present some kind of omnibus bill for a single yes or no vote on the spending cuts as a package. Congress agreed to such an all-or-nothing procedure when it set spending ceilings for fiscal 1982 in June. But the Democrats who control the House seem in no mood to go along again. Said...
...question is just how harshly the poor will be squeezed, and once again no one knows. In defense of the budget cuts, supporters argue that many federally funded entitlement programs, which began as experiments in helping the needy, have become a burden on taxpayers, since the dramatic growth of these programs over the past few years cannot be attributed only to inflation and rising unemployment. Federal outlays for Medicaid, for example, have risen 15% annually for the past five years to keep up with ballooning health-care costs. The food-stamp program swelled from 16 million recipients...
Medicaid. Federal funding for health-care programs will be sliced by 3%, or $500 million, in fiscal 1982. In Missouri, officials have cut back on the number of prescriptions a person can obtain, set standard reimbursement rates for various medical operations, and refused to pay for weekend hospital admissions except in emergencies. Faced with a $51 million shortfall, Illinois is requiring welfare recipients to chip in a dollar for every doctor visit or pharmacy order. Explains Budget Director Robert Mandeville: "This will cause folks to think twice." 1982, this program will be cut by $1.1 billion. Nearly all states will...