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Search results for "federal deficit" ...
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Wake-up Call
Medicare and health cost derived from the baby-boomer generation are driving the U.S. governments debts. "According to Government Accountability Office projections, if the federal government stays the course and makes no major changes in programs or taxes, it will be able to do little more than pay interest on its debts in just 30 years."
Tags: budget; Medicare; Social Security; Iraq; federal deficit; tax; reforms;
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The Plight of the White-Tie Worker
This contest entry looks at the outrageous salaries of some of this country's top orchestra and symphony conductors and executives. In some cases, the conductors' salaries exceeded those of the organizations' nonprofit missions. In one example, Lorin Maazel, the conductor of the New York Philharmonic, reported a $2,280,000 salary, despite the fact that the organization was facing a $2 million deficit.
Tags: orchestra conductors and executives; New York Philharmonic; Chicago Symphony; Philadelphia Orchestra; Cleveland Orchestra; American Federation of Musicians
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Bad Debts Soaring, Government Strives For Ways to Collect
The New York Times reports on the federal government's growing debt, which has grown to $126 billion from $100 billion in the last two years. Meanwhile, the government's resources for monitoring its debtors are shrinking, creating what Comptroller General Charles A. Bowsher a perilous situation.
Tags: federal government; Comptroller General; Charles A. Bowsher; deficit; debt; owed; money; finances; businesses
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Federal Overhaul
The Journal reports that "in thousands of ways -- some large, many small -- the government has changed. Like corporate America, federal agencies have been forced to become more cost-conscious and more efficient. And Americans are feeling the consequences."
Tags: budget cutbacks; government employees; budget deficit; politics; defense spending; IRS; tax increases; Clinton; domestic spending
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Uncle Sam in Your Back Yard
The Gazette Telegraph examines the "large government presence in Bent County, population 5,048... Federal spending in Bent County in 1993 came to $59.9 million, or $11,858 per person -- the highest per-capita amount in the state." The three-part series investigates the effects a proposed decrease in federal spending would have on Bent County and other areas in Colorado.
Tags: government; federal funds; taxes; Colorado; federal deficit
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Inequality & The Federal Budget Deficit
Citizens for Tax Justice (Washington, D.C.) issues a guide that shows the inequitable tax structures of most states and argues how to create a more equitable state tax system; overviews individually all 50 state tax systems and shows how each uses sales, property and income taxes, April 1991.
Tags: Taxes; federal budget; deficit
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A far city from fair
Citizens for Tax Justice (Washington, D.C.) outlines the history of the federal budget deficit and its impact on the U.S. economy; shows how the tax system favors the wealthy and places an undue burden on middle and lower income people; makes an argument for tax reform that would increase the taxes of the wealthy and ease the burden on the rest of America.
Tags: Taxes; federal budget; deficit; reform